{"id":382436,"date":"2010-03-02T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f555536970c"},"modified":"2010-03-02T19:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:45:49","slug":"jury-votes-for-death-penalty-for-woman-convicted-of-killing-westminster-fortuneteller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382436","title":{"rendered":"Jury votes for death penalty for woman convicted of killing Westminster fortuneteller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Santa Ana jury Tuesday voted for the death penalty for a 46-year-old woman convicted of murdering a Westminster fortuneteller and her daughter, a crime prosecutors said was motivated by a bad fortune. <\/p>\n<p>Tanya Nelson, 46, of North Carolina was found guilty last month in the 2005 stabbings of fortuneteller Ha Jade Smith, 52, and her daughter, Anita Vo, 23. <\/p>\n<p>If the judge agrees with the jury&#8217;s recommendation at a formal sentencing later this month, Nelson would become the second woman to receive the death penalty in Orange County history. <\/p>\n<p>Smith and Vo were found stabbed and covered in white paint in their home in April 2005. Credit cards, jewelry and cash were also taken from the home. <\/p>\n<p>Five weeks later, police arrested Nelson in Orange County, after she had assumed the identities of the victims and spent more than $3,000 in a shopping spree at South Coast Plaza. <\/p>\n<p>The prosecution relied on the testimony of Phillipe Zamora, who pleaded guilty last year to two counts of first-degree murder in the case and could be sentenced to 50 years to life. <\/p>\n<p>Zamora testified that Nelson ordered him to stab Smith and that he panicked after seeing Nelson attack Vo. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; My-Thuan Tran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Santa Ana jury Tuesday voted for the death penalty for a 46-year-old woman convicted of murdering a Westminster fortuneteller and her daughter, a crime prosecutors said was motivated by a bad fortune. Tanya Nelson, 46, of North Carolina was found guilty last month in the 2005 stabbings of fortuneteller Ha Jade Smith, 52, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}