A Circuit Court jury deliberated a day before finding Tyler Condon guilty yesterday of brutally stabbing his cousin to death on the Fourth of July in 2007.

Condon, 23, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole for the second-degree murder of Jake Hale, 28.

Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Franklin Pacarro Jr. said Condon "was on the run from the law" on the Mainland and had been kicked out of his uncle's 'Ewa Beach home when he stabbed Hale multiple times in the torso with a long-blade knife.

"It was a very brutal crime," Pacarro said after the court hearing.

One 5-inch wound hit Hale's lung and perforated his liver. Another severed his kidney and renal artery, said the prosecutor.

Condon, who claimed self-defense, had no wounds, said Pacarro.

Condon has been held without bail since shortly after his arrest.

He was wanted on several arrest warrants issued by California authorities for charges including theft and burglary. One case allegedly involved the theft of $60,000.

Condon's father, a California attorney, had filed a theft complaint against his son, said Pacarro.

The jury began deliberations at 9 a.m. today and returned with their verdict shortly after 4 p.m.

Circuit Judge Karen Ahn presided over the trial. She set sentencing for Feb. 2.