A hearing is set Monday for a Palmdale woman who is again seeking resentencing in connection with her guilty plea to the first-degree murder of her 8-year-old son — who was routinely beaten, starved, forced to sleep in a closet and tortured until his death nearly 13 years ago.
Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, now 42, was sentenced in March 2018 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the May 2013 killing of her son, Gabriel, but has since filed two resentencing petitions contending that she could not now be convicted of murder because of recent changes in state law that affect defendants in some murder cases.
Her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, now 45, was sentenced to death. His automatic appeal to the California Supreme Court is pending…