Dennis Cyrus gets life in Page Street Mob killings | San Francisco News: "federal judge sentenced a 26-year-old San Francisco man to life in prison Friday for killing three people during the Western Addition’s drug wars, rejecting defense claims that prosecutors had withheld critical evidence about the city’s scandal-plagued narcotics laboratory.
U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney denied a new trial to Dennis Cyrus Jr. before sentencing him to three life terms, all without possibility of parole, for the murders he committed in 2002 as a member of the Page Street Mob.
A jury convicted Cyrus in May 2009 of 16 felonies, including dealing crack cocaine and committing murder as part of a racketeering enterprise. Prosecutors sought a death sentence, but jurors spared Cyrus’ life after hearing about his childhood with a crack-addicted mother and a violent ex-convict father.
The verdict required a life sentence. It was the longest term given to any of the seven Page Street gang members convicted of charges in a 2005 indictment.
Prosecutors said the gang waged a bloody battle against rivals and defectors to protect their drug trade. They said Cyrus was the triggerman in the deaths of Joseph Hearns and Randy Mitchell, killed in August 2002, and Ray Jimmerson, slain the following month after talking to police."
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