Posted at 3:05 p.m., Friday, September 1, 2006
Jury convicts man of manslaughter in fatal stabbing
BY KEN KOBAYASHI
Advertiser Courts Writer
After deliberating for a total of more than two days, the jury found Kerry Sanders, 40, guilty of recklessly killing Jonathan Nunes, 32, on California Avenue in Wahiawa on Nov. 4, 2004.
Nunes was unarmed, but Kerry's defense was that he did not intend to kill the larger man and held up a kitchen knife to fend off a punch when Nunes was stabbed.
Sanders now faces a maximum 20-year term when he is sentenced by Circuit Judge Karl Sakamoto on Nov. 8.
The murder charge carried a mandatory life term with parole.
