Florida man convicted after claiming sleep walking when he fatally stabbed roommate
Posted: Thu May 09, 2019 7:10 pm
Yesterday, a jury dismissed his claim of insanity due to sleepwalking and convicted Herman of 1st Degree murder. He was immediately sentenced to life with no possibility of parole.
Couple notes with the case...He was NOT using ambien at all. He had been drinking heavily the night before and made sexual advances towards the victim who ended up staying the night with a friend because of it. Despite the defenses claim that there was "no motive", there most certainly was theories of motive.
Couple notes with the case...He was NOT using ambien at all. He had been drinking heavily the night before and made sexual advances towards the victim who ended up staying the night with a friend because of it. Despite the defenses claim that there was "no motive", there most certainly was theories of motive.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/2019 ... g-homicideRandy Herman Jr., 26, received a life sentence in the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Brooke Preston on March 25, 2017.
WEST PALM BEACH — After about five hours of deliberations, a 12-person jury found Randy Herman Jr. guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Brooke Preston in 2017, rejecting the defense that he was sleepwalking when he attacked her in suburban West Palm Beach.
After the verdict was read, both Preston’s family and Herman’s family teared up silently on opposite sides of the courtroom as Circuit Judge John Kastrenakes thanked the jury for its service of more than a week in the case. Before the judge sentenced Herman, 26, to the mandatory term of life in prison, Preston’s sister, Jordan, spoke briefly before the court.
As she tried to stifle her tears, she explained nothing has been the same since her sister was killed. The sisters and Herman had know each other since they were teenagers and lived together for more than six months at the home where she was attacked. Jordan Preston was not in the residence at the time of the fatal stabbing.