Closing arguments in Mynisha trial wrap up this morning in Victorville
Lawyers' closing arguments in the trial for two men charged in the shooting death of 11-year-old Mynisha Crenshaw are expected to wrap up today in Victorville Superior Court.
Defense lawyer Marsha Fitzgerald, who represents Michael Barnett Jr., is scheduled to give her closing argument this morning, following those given Monday by defense lawyer Ron Powell and Deputy District Attorney Ron Webster.
After some final instructions from Judge Jon Tomberlin about applicable law, the case would then go to the jury for deliberations. Sources say the lawyers have been told be on stand-by in the High Desert to hear the verdicts, when they are reached.
The two defendants, Barnett and Sinque Morrison, were part of a larger group of suspected gang members who sought revenge against a rival gang when shots were fired into the San Bernardino apartment where Mynisha lived with her family in November 2005.
Inside the apartment, Mynisha was eating dinner with her family. Mynisha was struck once in the chest, while her then 14-year-old sister was shot in the right arm - severing the bone.
Prosecutors have insisted the girls' family had no gang ties and no weapons. The girls were unintended victims.
Two co-defendants, Sidikiba Greenwood and Harold Phillips, were recently convicted and sentenced to state prison. Eight other defendants have taken plea bargains, of which three are awaiting sentencing.
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