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https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/lo...-of-Elderly-Woman-in-Oceanside-500694541.html
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A caregiver was found guilty of elderly abuse and murder Thursday for an incident caught on video that showed a 94-year-old woman pushed through a screen door, resulting in her death days later.

A jury found William Sutton, 68, guilty of second-degree murder and elderly abuse resulting in death for the April 16, 2016 incident that led to Margaret Wood's death 11 weeks later.

Sutton cared for 93-year-old Marian Kubic at her Oceanside home. On the day of the incident, Kubic was paid a visit by her best friend -- Wood.

Surveillance video captured by cameras next door showed Wood being pushed through Kubic's front door and down three porch steps. She stumbled backward onto the concrete and cracked her skull and broke her nose.

The man who pushed Wood was identified as Sutton, who had been Kubic's caregiver for two years. He was arrested on murder charges on July 11, two days after Wood's death.

Kubic died less than two months after the altercation and before Sutton's murder trial could begin, but she recorded testimony for the trial while in hospice care.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/sd-me-sutton-closes-20181115-story.html
At trial, there was no dispute that the defendant, William Sutton, had injured Wood in the April 16, 2016 incident. Much of it was caught on camera, and his attorney told the jury that his client was “100 percent guilty” of elder abuse.

In dispute was whether her injuries at the hands of Sutton caused her death, or if she died from too much morphine administered in her final hours and days, as the defense argued.

When the guilty verdict was read, Wood’s grandchildren hugged and cried in the courtroom of Vista Superior Court Judge Blaine Bowman.

“It’s the best possible outcome we could have hoped for,” granddaughter Laura Beecher said of Wood, who had spent much of her adult life living in the San Diego County region.

Wood was a spry 4-foot-11-inch woman who took daily walks and was “very loving and fierce and loyal and brave and courageous — and funny,” Beecher said.

In addition to second-degree murder, the jury also found Sutton guilty of elder abuse, with allegations that included great bodily injury.

Sutton, 68, faces 15 years to life in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 17.

Authorities said Wood was trying to visit a friend, and trying to retrieve her left-behind sunglasses when Sutton threw her out. Sutton was the caretaker for Wood’s friend.

Wood suffered serious head injuries in the incident, which was caught on the surveillance camera of a neighbor in the senior community off Lake Boulevard.

Sutton was arrested the following day and initially charged with attempted murder and elder abuse. After she died, prosecutors changed the charge to murder.

On Thursday, during closing arguments in Sutton’s trial, Deputy District Attorney Garret Wong argued that Wood died from injuries received when Sutton “launched her out of the door” head first onto a concrete porch.

Wong said Wood’s doctor told the family that her injuries “were a death sentence.”

After a hospital stay, Woods was placed in hospice care, and died less than two months later.

“It’s a testament to how vibrant and healthy she was at 93 years old that she didn’t die immediately,” Wong said.

In his closing argument, Sutton’s attorney, Matt Roberts, told the jury that his client was “100 percent guilty” of elder abuse.

But, he said, the incident “happened in an instant,” and murder was not on Sutton’s mind.

“He is absolutely responsible for losing his temper — but he did not have the intent to kill,” Roberts said.

Roberts said Wood had been recovering from her injuries. He pointed to illnesses — including pneumonia and infections — she had suffered during her recovery, as well as to what he said was a “lethal amount of morphine” given to her.

Wong countered that there was “no evidence of neglect or medical malpractice,” and rhetorically asked the jury why Wood was in hospice care in the first place.
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For the life of me I can't find out his sentence. If you can find it, please post.
 
But what did he actually get? I can't believe I couldn't find one article about the sentencing.
 
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/lo...r-Deadly-Push-of-Elderly-Woman-502955841.html
A judge called a former caregiver a "bully" when sentencing him to 15 years in prison on Monday for pushing a 94-year-old woman through a screen door, resulting in her death months later.

William Sutton, 68, received the maximum sentence for charges of second-degree murder and elderly abuse resulting in death, stemming from an incident on April 16, 2016 that led to Margaret Wood's death 11 weeks later.

"The court was not fooled by your sham tag as caregiver. You were not a caregiver; you were a bully," the judge said during the sentencing. Sutton was denied probation.
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Wood's family packed a courtroom in Vista to ask the judge to give Sutton the maximum sentence possible. One by one, Margaret Wood's children and grandchildren described the pain of losing their family matriarch after the violent attack.

"He left her lying on the ground helpless and bleeding. He never, in any way, attempted to help," Wood's granddaughter-in-law, Lisa Wood, said to the judge Monday. "These are not the actions of a normal, remorseful person. these are the actions of a monster."

Kubic died less than two months after the altercation and before Sutton's murder trial could begin, but she recorded testimony for the trial, and on behalf of her best friend, while in hospice care.

Sutton sat in silence and no one spoke on his behalf during the sentencing.
 

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