A man convicted of breaking into a woman’s Rancho Penasquitos condominium and killing her was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years to life in state prison.
Parrish Juan Chambers Jr., 47, was convicted by a San Diego jury of second-degree murder for the June 2022 killing of 45-year-old Nahal Connie Dadkhah.
Prosecutors alleged Chambers smashed through a window to gain access to Dadkhah’s home and beat her to death. Chambers’ defense attorney, Abram Genser, argued, though, that any injuries Chambers may have inflicted were not life-threatening, and Dadkhah died instead of a brain bleed caused by excessive methamphetamine use.
Chambers’ murder conviction came in his second trial in the case. A separate San Diego jury acquitted him of first-degree murder, but deadlocked after more than three days of deliberation on lesser counts of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. The same jury did, however, convict Chambers of battery and false imprisonment for other prior altercations in which prosecutors said Chambers pushed, grabbed and choked Dadkhah…