< Back to All News

Fultz Murder Trial Resumes

Posted: Sep. 18, 2018 12:18 AM PDT

A murder trial resumes in a Nevada County courtroom today. Finley Fultz is charged with the first-degree killing of Isaac Zafft during a marijuana robbery in Penn Valley, in July of 2014. Assistant County District Attorney Chris Walsh says three men were originally arrested. But since then, two of them, Nathan Philbrook and Daniel Devencenzi have reached conditional plea agreements, which reduce the murder charges to manslaughter…

click to listen to Chris Walsh

Walsh says as part of the deal, Philbrook and Devencenzi must testify against Fultz…

click to listen to Chris Walsh

Philbrook is now facing a 23-year stipulated prison sentence. It’s 11 years for Devencenzi. But Walsh says Devencenzi is also dying of cancer. So in case he is not medically able to take the stand, videotaped testimony is also available, which was taken about a month ago. Walsh says the trial is expected to last another two weeks or so.

More from my site

More from my site

KNCO Web Comments Guidelines

  1. Keep it clean. Comments with inappropriate language, no matter how cleverly spelled or decorated will not be posted.
  2. Comments on the way the story was written or misspelled words will be passed on to the story authors and not posted.
  3. Please use your real name. Anonymous comments or comments posted using a fake name or web handle may not be posted.
  4. Please use your real email address so we can contact you.
  5. No flaming. Any comments that are primarily of a name calling finger pointing nature may not be posted.
  6. The comment section is not a right it is a privilege. KNCO retains all rights as to what is posted on its website.

Leave A Comment

*

*

* captcha