Certainly one of two girls linked to an October 2018 deadly stabbing exterior a rural Vacaville residence has pleaded in absentia, Solano County Superior Court docket information present.
The protection legal professional for Jessica Anne Weirich, 31, waived her rights on Feb. 16 and entered the plea, a doc that allows a consumer’s lawyer to current a two-page affidavit to the courtroom within the consumer’s absence. The plea got here the identical day Weirich was to seem for a preliminary listening to setting in Division 11.
Usually, a plea in absentia lists the costs in opposition to a consumer, rights given up by pleading responsible or no contest, and phrases of the plea settlement. Such pleas are for misdemeanors solely.
A name Friday for extra data from Weirich’s legal professional, Barry Okay. Newman of Fairfield, was not returned by press time Monday.
Weirich initially was charged with being an adjunct after the actual fact, a felony, for her connection to the Oct. 23 stabbing for which Kristofer Michael Williams was convicted on Oct. 21, 2021, when a jury discovered him responsible of killing Jonathan “Johnny” Russell, 30, of San Francisco, exterior a rural Vacaville residence. She is believed to have pushed Williams to the house, within the 5800 block of Fry Street.
Her co-defendant, Kailyn Scarlett Gibson, 32, who was scheduled to seem on Feb. 15 in Choose William J. Pendergast’s courtroom, will return to courtroom at 8:30 a.m. March 1 for a readiness convention and to set a preliminary listening to within the Justice Heart in Fairfield.
Throughout Williams’ trial, Solano County Sheriff’s investigators mentioned he was disturbed by an ongoing baby custody battle and believed Gary Nofuentes’ daughter belonged with Gibson, her mom, who on the time was a pal of Williams and was in search of to achieve custody rights in Solano County Household Court docket.
In some unspecified time in the future through the night time of the killing, Russell got here between the woman and Williams, who plunged a knife into Russell’s neck. Russell underwent surgical procedure at Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Heart.
Williams, 35, was arrested within the early morning hours of Oct. 24 at his residence within the 600 block of Roscommon Drive in Vacaville. A number of days later, Russell was declared mind useless, then taken off life assist and died.
Gibson was initially charged with dissuading a witness, cruelty to a toddler by inflicting damage, and eavesdropping by recording confidential data. After her arrest on Nov. 16, 2018, she posted a $75,000 bond and was launched from custody. She is represented by Fairfield legal protection legal professional Denis Honeychurch. If convicted at trial, Gibson could face as a lot as three years in jail.
Along with the homicide cost, Williams was discovered responsible of the kidnapping of a minor beneath 14, assault with a lethal weapon, baby endangerment; and housebreaking of an inhabited dwelling.
Williams, who stays with out bail in Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield, might be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Division 11. He faces greater than 50 years in state jail.