In just over two months, Larry Millete will learn if he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison. The Chula Vista father, recently convicted of first-degree murder for killing his wife Maya, was back in court Monday and changed his plea to guilty in an unrelated case.
Millete had been charged with possession of an unregistered assault weapon. Chula Vista police detectives seized that weapon, and other guns, when Larry was served a gun violence restraining order in 2021.
That happened while they were investigating Maya’s disappearance. Her body has never been found.
That gun charge wasn’t mentioned once during his murder trial, because his defense attorneys successfully argued to exclude it – a legal process called bifurcation. Essentially, the gun charge could be tried separately because it wasn’t relevant to the murder case…