Annie Le . Raymond Clark III, the lab technician who pleaded guilty to killing Yale University graduate college student Annie Le in September 2009, is anticipated for being sentenced to 44 a long time in prison in Superior Court on Friday.
A number of members of Le's family are scheduled to travel from Le's home state of California for that sentencing, Senior Assistant State's Lawyer David Strollo explained Wednesday. It absolutely was unclear which family members planned to converse in the listening to.Annie Le Sentenced to 44 years in Prison
Le was beaten, strangled and stuffed into a wall of the Yale University investigation middle. In March, Clark, 26, pleaded guilty to Le's murder along with a charge introduced for that initial time in the plea hearing - criminal try to commit first-degree sexual assault - suggesting for the initial time a achievable motive for that crime.The plea offer averted what was anticipated for being a remarkable and broadly publicized trial.
Prosecutors have stated the evidence towards Clark was voluminous, which includes 1000's of pages of police reports, a huge selection of items of evidence, and much more than one,000 photographs. Documents present that police linked Clark towards the killing through DNA, fingerprints, key-card tracking of Clark's movements in the Yale developing, video clip, other physical evidence, and statements that Clark produced to police.
Le was previous noticed alive the early morning of Sept. 8, 2009, entering the Yale Animal Research Middle, a state-of-the-art safe study building at the Yale College of Medication complex. Le, 24, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology from Placerville, Calif., did research with the center. Clark took care with the lab animals there.
Right after Le's roommate reported her missing, authorities searched for Le for 5 days, mainly focusing their lookup around the analysis creating. At one particular point, authorities suspected Le may be a runaway bride due to the fact she disappeared days just before she was for being married.
