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By City News Service
Feb 22, 2021
POMONA (CNS) - A convicted sex offender pleaded no contest today to two counts of murder and is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the killings of two young boys within a five-year span.
Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, 59, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 27 at the Pomona courthouse.
Monday s plea deal happened as Orange County prosecutors were expected to square off with Los Angeles County prosecutors regarding a proposed dismissal of special circumstances allegations that would have kept the defendant eligible for the death penalty and at least a life-without-parole sentence.
Convicted Sex Offender Accepts Plea Deal in Killing of Orange County Boy
POMONA A convicted sex offender pleaded no contest Feb. 22 to two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of two young boys including one from Anaheim Hills within a five-year span.
Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The 59-year-old is scheduled to be sentenced on April 27 at the Pomona courthouse.
The plea deal happened as Orange County prosecutors were expected to square off with Los Angeles County prosecutors regarding a proposed dismissal of special circumstances allegations that would have kept the defendant eligible for the death penalty and at least a life-without-parole sentence.
A convicted sex offender pleaded no contest Monday to two counts of murder and is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the killings of two young boys within a five-year span.