Revealing emotion for the first time, convicted National Guard killer Scott Allen Ansman erupted this afternoon at his formal sentencing.
Against a background of repeatedly proclaiming his innocence on grounds of self-defense, Mr. Ansman bitterly took a hushed courtroom down a rhetorical footpath of broken glass, heaving heinous charges against his accusers.
Brazenly and perhaps desperately, he sprayed vitriolic accusations against his prosecutors — judge, jury and mainly Assistant District Attorney Joe Markus — before expectedly being formally sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, plus a concurrent life sentence without possibility of parole.
Four months ago, a jury at the LAX Courthouse deliberated for only 120 minutes before finding the married career soldier guilty on both counts of first degree murder, against his 29-year-old girlfriend, JoAnn Crystal Harris, and her unborn baby.
“Everything is good,” Mr. Markus, a prosecutor known for succinctness, declared at 3 o’clock, just after trial judge H. Chester Horn Jr. pronounced sentence.
Mr. Markus had sought two consecutive life sentences. But Judge Horn said that would have served no practical purpose.
