Prosecutor: Death penalty possible for British motivational speaker in Vegas woman’s slaying
By APThursday, January 14, 2010
Death penalty possible for Brit in Vegas slaying
LAS VEGAS — Prosecutors might seek the death penalty for a British motivational speaker charged with killing a Las Vegas woman, stuffing her body in a trash barrel and moving into her home.
Deputy Clark County District Attorney Robert Daskas told a Nevada judge Thursday that prosecutors will decide within weeks whether to try 37-year-old Michael Victor Lane on a capital murder charge.
The judge entered not guilty pleas for Lane during his arraignment on two indictments handed up last week, and set trial for January 2011.
Lane is charged with murder and robbery with a deadly weapon in the November slaying of 44-year-old Ginger Candela.
He’s also charged with attempted murder and battery with use of a deadly weapon in an attack on another person he allegedly met for sex.
