GUILTY PA - Satyavathi, 61, & Saanvi Venna, 10 mos, slain, King of Prussia, 22 Oct 2012

[OkieGranny]

http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/st...eacd751f/PA--Grandmother-Killed-Baby-Missing/

A suburban Philadelphia judge has barred prosecutors from showing jurors several graphic photographs in the death penalty trial of a man accused of having killed a baby and her grandmother in a botched kidnapping plot...

Thursday's decision by Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill came after several jurors could be seen weeping as they viewed a picture of the infant's foot and dress on a floor where her body was found.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20141003/prosecution-rests-case-in-montco-double-murder-trial

Prosecutors closed their case against Raghunandan Yandamuri on Friday with testimony from the vice president of gaming operations at the Valley Forge Casio Resort, who shed light on how much money Yandamuri lost in the days leading up to the killings.

Anthony Spagno returned to court on Friday morning and testified that Yandamuri, 28, had lost close to $35,000 in the days preceding the killings.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.buckscountycouriertimes....cle_9840586c-fc91-5b97-85ed-5c680256a7ce.html

Acting as his own lawyer, Raghunandan Yandamuri took the witness stand to tell jurors how he ended up being charged with first- and second-degree murder for the October 2012 stabbing death of 61-year-old Satyavathi Venna and the suffocation death of her 10-month-old granddaughter Saanvi Venna...

Yandamuri, of Upper Merion, testified that investigators, particularly Montgomery County homicide Detective Paul Bradbury, coerced him to giving both a written, and later a video, statement confessing to both killings.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/2...ought_police__quot_were_my_friends_quot_.html

Speaking defiantly and often raising his voice, the man accused in the 2012 killing of a baby and her grandmother in King of Prussia on Tuesday said the police who built the case against him were liars, and blamed the gruesome murders on two men who he said forced him at gunpoint to help them...

But Yandamuri, whose DNA was found on the woman's body, admitted taking the gold bracelets off her arms as she lay in a pool of blood...

Closing arguments are scheduled to begin Wednesday.

 

[Dreamer1627]

Raghunandan Yandamuri Convicted Of Killing Baby Girl, Grandmother

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/raghunandan-yandamuri-convicted_n_5962632.html

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man accused of killing a 10-month-old girl and her grandmother in what prosecutors described as a kidnapping plot gone wrong was convicted of murder on Thursday.

Raghunandan Yandamuri, who had served as his own lawyer, was expressionless as the verdict against him was read, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Yandamuri, 27, faces the possibility of the death penalty for the 2012 slayings of Saanvi Venna and her grandmother Satayrathi Venna.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.morning-times.com/state_news/article_5a6de43e-22c0-5a42-82dd-3b58164dbd71.html

A Montgomery County jury heard arguments Friday on whether 27-year-old Raghunandan Yandamuri should be executed or spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. But before jurors were brought in, he told Judge Steven O'Neill that he wanted no part in the proceedings.

"I don't want this hearing," Yandamuri quietly told the judge, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. "I would rather take the death penalty." After consulting with his court-appointed attorney at the judge's urging, however, he agreed to be present for the hearing and allow it to move forward.

 

[Dreamer1627]

Raghunandan Yandamuri sentenced to death in Upper Merion murders

http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/ar...ia_courier/news/doc543dcda051f92675889848.txt

After deliberating four hours, a jury Tuesday handed down two death sentences in the case of Raghunandan Yandamuri, who was convicted last week of murder in the killings of Satyavathi Venna and her 10-month-old granddaughter, Saanvi.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...ndmother-Killer-Death-Sentence-283402641.html

On Thursday evening, Judge Steven O'Neill agreed with the jury and sentenced Yandamuri to death for the two murders. O'Neill also gave Yandamuri a total of 31 to 62 years on other charges including kidnapping, burglary and abuse of a corpse.

 

[perfectingpink]

"2014 Year End: Baby-killer Raghunandan Yandamuri sentenced to death in 2014"

http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/ar...ia_courier/news/doc54a298c53dbda640688674.txt

 

[YESorNO]

Execution Delayed in Pennsylvania for Notorious Killer Raghunandan Yandamuri

"Raghunandan Yandamuri, the first Indian American on death row, was not put to death by lethal injection on Feb. 23, his scheduled execution date, as the state of Pennsylvania has a moratorium on the death penalty since 2015.

Pennsylvania District Court Judge Petrese Tucker issued a stay of execution for Yandamuri Jan. 16, based on a request by the killer, who – during court proceedings – told a judge he wanted to die for the crimes he had committed, and asked that the death sentence be imposed upon him. He received two death sentences, which he later appealed but lost last April....

The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons would have to determine if Yandamuri’s death sentence can be commuted to a life sentence, said Worden.

In 2014, Yandamuri was sentenced to die by lethal injection for murdering 10-month-old Saanvi Venna and her 61-year-old grandmother, Satyavathi Venna. A jury deliberated for just three hours before declaring Yandamuri guilty..."

http://www.indiawest.com/news/globa...cle_80172b74-18ee-11e8-9076-eb541b160562.html

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