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Migrant Gets Life Sentence for Killing Laken Riley in Case Seized On by Trump [1]

['Rick Rojas']

Date: 2024-11-20

A 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela was convicted on Wednesday of murdering Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student whose killing has been repeatedly cited by President-elect Donald J. Trump in his push for the mass deportation of millions of undocumented people.

Ms. Riley, 22, was attacked in February while running on a trail on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. A day later, the authorities charged Jose Antonio Ibarra, a migrant who had entered the country illegally, in connection with the killing.

Mr. Ibarra faced numerous charges, including malice murder and aggravated assault with the intent to rape.

Judge H. Patrick Haggard of State Superior Court in Athens-Clarke County found him guilty and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a four-day bench trial. Judge Haggard announced the verdict just minutes after lawyers concluded their arguments, repeating a prosecutor’s earlier statement that the “evidence was overwhelming and powerful.”

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/laken-riley-murder-trial-jose-ibarra-guilty.html

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