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Ricardo Rivera, 28, admitted the cost below a plea settlement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, simply as a jury was being assembled for his trial on the Riverside Hall of Justice.
In change for his admission, prosecutors agreed to drop a sentence-enhancing allegation of utilizing a lethal weapon within the fee of a felony.
Superior Court Judge Jason Armand scheduled a sentencing listening to for June 7. The prosecution and protection stipulated a time period of 25 years to life in state jail for the defendant.
Rivera is being held with out bail at Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.
He murdered Ashley Brosious of Moreno Valley on the afternoon of Jan. 17, 2019, at his residence within the 23100 block of Denver Court, close to Adeline Avenue.
Deputies had been initially referred to as to the situation to analyze stories of a girl in want of medical help, based on Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Ben Ramirez.
“Upon arrival, (deputies) positioned a deceased feminine with apparent indicators of trauma,” Ramirez mentioned.
Rivera was on the home and brought into custody with out incident, Ramirez mentioned.
A knife, later recognized because the homicide weapon, was seized contained in the residence.
The probationer and Brosious had been romantically concerned for an unspecified interval previous to the lethal assault, for which there was no clarification.
According to court docket information, Rivera had a previous conviction for home violence. The sufferer in that 2017 case was somebody apart from Brosious, information confirmed.
