Victim’s household blasts plea deal: ‘This isn’t justice’

The grieving household of 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves needed to wait over a month earlier than a suspect in her 2022 killing was arrested. Since then, they and the households of three different University of Idaho college students killed on the identical time have been pressured to endure an agonizingly gradual authorized course of, punctuated by delay after delay.

Now, a month earlier than the suspect’s homicide trial was lastly set to start, the households’ lengthy anticipate justice is poised to finish in what one Goncalves member of the family calls a “shocking and cruel” plea deal – that removes the potential of the demise penalty.

“After more than two years, this is how it concludes — with a secretive deal and a hurried effort to close the case without any input from the victims’ families on the plea’s details,” the Goncalves household mentioned in a press release shared with CNN. #CNN #News