A judge Friday lopped nearly three years off an ex-con’s sentence for carrying out a 2020 crime spree that included an ambush-style shooting that left two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies wounded in their patrol vehicle outside a Compton transit center, leaving him with a state prison term of 164 years to life.
The case was sent back to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Connie R. Quinones for re-sentencing by a panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal which noted in a ruling last year that two of the four charges of possession of a firearm by a felon on which Deonte Lee Murray was convicted “must be reversed because the prosecution did not prove that he continuously possessed more than two firearms when he committed the shootings in this case.”
Those two counts were dismissed at Friday’s hearing, resulting in two years and eight months being taken off his initial sentence of 166 years and eight months to life…