| 23 Years For Stabbing Wife 32 Times |
| Mon, February 20, 2017 |
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The man who stabbed his wife 32 times and then slit her throat will serve 23 in jail. As we told you last week, Daniel Ku pled guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. Well, today Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin sentenced him to 23 years today by. But Ku will only serve 13 years because he's already served 10 years for the 2006 killing. Actually Ku's sentence would have been 25 years but 2 years were deducted because of mitigation pleas by his attorney, Bryan Neal and his brother.
In December of 2006 Ku killed his wife, Anna Maria Magdaleno Basto. He alleged that they had just had sex and Basto said that she has a lover who was 10 times better than him.
Ku was originally convicted of murder but he appealed his conviction and sentence of life imprisonment. The Court allowed an appeal and ordered a retrial. About 2 months ago the retrial was aborted because the jury was tainted. Before the third trial commenced the DPP reduced the charge of murder to manslaughter. Ku then elected to plead guilty to the lesser charge.
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