{"id":526434,"date":"2010-04-13T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fda9061970c"},"modified":"2010-04-13T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:29:59","slug":"arraignment-postponed-in-faria-beach-triple-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526434","title":{"rendered":"Arraignment postponed in Faria Beach triple murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arraignment for the 20-year-old man accused in a triple murder at a beach home near Ventura has been delayed until May 12.<\/p>\n

\n Ventura County Superior Court Judge Bruce A. Young also revoked the $2.2-million bail on which Joshua Graham Packer has been held since Sunday. Such actions are routine when defendants are charged with crimes for which they might face the death penalty.<\/p>\n

\n Packer is accused in the May 2009 stabbing deaths of Brock and Davina Husted at their home in the gated community of Faria Beach. Their two children were home at the time, and Mrs. Husted was six months pregnant.<\/p>\n

\n An unemployed Ventura resident, Packer is being represented by the Ventura County Public Defender’s Office.
\n Howard Asher, an attorney with that office, asked for the continuance to allow the defense more time to prepare.<\/p>\n

\n About a dozen of the Husteds’ family members packed the courtroom’s front rows for the brief hearing.
\n A number of Packer’s friends and relatives also were present.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Afterward, prosecutor Michael Frawley said it would be several months before the district attorney’s office decides whether to seek the death penalty or a life sentence without parole.
\n Packer is charged with robbery and burglary, as well as murder. Frawley declined to say what items had allegedly been stolen.<\/p>\n

\n The judge granted Asher’s request to bar cameras from the courtroom, agreeing that the killer’s identification could be an issue at trial.<\/p>\n

\n Ventura County sheriff’s officials disclosed Monday that they picked up Packer after matching DNA found in the Husted home with a DNA specimen taken from Packer after Santa Barbara authorities arrested him earlier this year in an alleged armed robbery at a gas station. <\/p>\n

— Steve Chawkins<\/p>\n

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