Honduran migrant guilty in stabbing
Published: Sat, Oct. 20, 2007 12:00AM
Modified Sat, Oct. 20, 2007 03:10AM
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closeDURHAM -- A jury convicted an illegal Honduran immigrant Friday of killing a woman who was stabbed more than 40 times.
Franklin Manacer-Herrera was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for the 2004 slaying of 26-year-old Chandra Brown Mwicigi.
The victim was stabbed repeatedly inside an apartment on Broad Street, according to investigators, and then dragged outside and left on the sidewalk. The knife wounds left on the woman appeared to be a symbol of a Latin gang known for its violence, investigators added.
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Jurors deliberated for slightly more than a day after a trial that lasted two weeks in Durham County Superior Court.
The prosecution argued that Manacer-Herrera was a member of MS-13. Defense lawyers said the allegations were not true.
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