Cary Stayner Trial Update

The Stayner trial goes to the jury as reported by fresnobee.com | Murder in Yosemite. The Bee reports on the closing arguments as follows:

"We are not asking you to acquit Cary Stayner, to let him go," she told the jury of nine men and three women. "These were clearly unlawful killings. The issue is what kind of killings they were."
She called the evidence more consistent with second-degree murder, which would eliminate the prospect of the death penalty if Stayner was convicted and judged to be sane. Stayner, 41, already is serving a life sentence, with no prospect for release, for the July 1999 murder of Yosemite park naturalist Joie Ruth Armstrong, 26.

Interesting "lemons into lemonade" argument by the defense.