10 News (San Diego, California, USA)
SAN DIEGO -- A woman was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder for luring a man she dated out of his apartment, where he was shot and killed by her jealous and abusive boyfriend and then burned inside his car in La Jolla.
An eight-woman, four-man jury found 27-year-old Ny Nourn guilty of murder on its fourth day of deliberations. She was acquitted of arson of property.
It was the defendant's second trial. She was previously found guilty of first-degree murder and lying in wait, but those convictions were overturned on appeal.
Judge Charles Rogers dismissed the lying in wait allegation before the retrial and threw out the first-degree murder charge after completion of the prosecution's case-in-chief.
Nourn's former lover, Ronald Barker, was convicted in a separate trial of first-degree murder for killing 38-year-old David Allen Stevens. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Nourn faces 15 years to life behind bars when she is sentenced Jan. 18.
Deputy District Attorney Chandra Appell said Nourn lured Stevens out of his Pacific Beach apartment the morning of Dec. 23, 1998, telling him she had car trouble and needed his help.
Stevens was a marketing manager at a dating service called Perfect Match, and Nourn was a telemarketer there, the prosecutor said.
Appell told jurors that Nourn had gone out with Stevens, and had sex with him on their first date, though she was in a "very intense" relationship with the then-35-year-old Barker, whom she met after seeing his profile on the Internet.
After leaving Stevens' apartment the night of the murder, Nourn returned to her parents' home in Mira Mesa, where she was confronted by an angry Barker, the prosecutor said.
Barker wanted to end their relationship, but Nourn begged him not to, according to Appell. Nourn ultimately chose to go along with a plan to kill Stevens and burn his body in his car on a La Jolla roadway, the prosecutor said.
Nourn returned to Stevens' apartment and tricked the victim into helping her and her "brother" -- who turned out to be Barker -- with her supposed car trouble, Appell told the jury.
Stevens pulled to the side of the road when Barker flashed his headlights. The killer then jumped into Stevens' car and shot him twice in the head.
After the murder, Barker and Nourn decided to get rid of the evidence on La Jolla Scenic Drive North, the prosecutor said.
"They decided to burn Mr. Stevens' car with his body inside of it," Appell said.
The crime went unsolved for three years, until Nourn confided in some girlfriends that she was afraid of Barker, telling them he had threatened to kill her and her family, Appell said.
The friends convinced Nourn to go to the police.
"You don't get to sacrifice the innocent life of someone else because you feel threatened," Appell told the jury. "She (Nourn) chose David Stevens to be the victim."
Defense attorney Doug Brown argued Nourn didn't intend to kill or hurt Stevens.
Brown called Barker a "psycho" who represented himself as a 20-year-old single man when he met the then-17-year-old Nourn, who spent the first five years of her life in a refugee camp along the Cambodia-Thailand border before her family fled to America.
Nourn was an inexperienced teen with self-esteem and emotional problems when she met Barker, her attorney said, characterizing her then as "a troubled little girl."
Brown said Barker raped and beat Nourn, shot at her, threatened her with a knife and burned her with an iron, calling him a "man who would not let her out of his claws."
He said Nourn lived under the fear that she and her family were going to be killed.
"(Barker) made her participate (in Stevens' murder)," Brown told the jury. "She never thought that Barker was going to kill David Stevens. He said, 'If you ever tell anybody about this, I'm going to kill you and I'm going to kill your family.'"
Doctors who evaluated Nourn determined that she was a victim of Battered Woman Syndrome, the attorney said.
Women who have been battered sometimes act out in an irrational way, Brown said. He said Nourn's fear of Barker was justified.
"This guy was a killer. He wasn't going to let her get in the way," Brown told jury.
An eight-woman, four-man jury found 27-year-old Ny Nourn guilty of murder on its fourth day of deliberations. She was acquitted of arson of property.
It was the defendant's second trial. She was previously found guilty of first-degree murder and lying in wait, but those convictions were overturned on appeal.
Judge Charles Rogers dismissed the lying in wait allegation before the retrial and threw out the first-degree murder charge after completion of the prosecution's case-in-chief.
Nourn's former lover, Ronald Barker, was convicted in a separate trial of first-degree murder for killing 38-year-old David Allen Stevens. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Nourn faces 15 years to life behind bars when she is sentenced Jan. 18.
Deputy District Attorney Chandra Appell said Nourn lured Stevens out of his Pacific Beach apartment the morning of Dec. 23, 1998, telling him she had car trouble and needed his help.
Stevens was a marketing manager at a dating service called Perfect Match, and Nourn was a telemarketer there, the prosecutor said.
Appell told jurors that Nourn had gone out with Stevens, and had sex with him on their first date, though she was in a "very intense" relationship with the then-35-year-old Barker, whom she met after seeing his profile on the Internet.
After leaving Stevens' apartment the night of the murder, Nourn returned to her parents' home in Mira Mesa, where she was confronted by an angry Barker, the prosecutor said.
Barker wanted to end their relationship, but Nourn begged him not to, according to Appell. Nourn ultimately chose to go along with a plan to kill Stevens and burn his body in his car on a La Jolla roadway, the prosecutor said.
Nourn returned to Stevens' apartment and tricked the victim into helping her and her "brother" -- who turned out to be Barker -- with her supposed car trouble, Appell told the jury.
Stevens pulled to the side of the road when Barker flashed his headlights. The killer then jumped into Stevens' car and shot him twice in the head.
After the murder, Barker and Nourn decided to get rid of the evidence on La Jolla Scenic Drive North, the prosecutor said.
"They decided to burn Mr. Stevens' car with his body inside of it," Appell said.
The crime went unsolved for three years, until Nourn confided in some girlfriends that she was afraid of Barker, telling them he had threatened to kill her and her family, Appell said.
The friends convinced Nourn to go to the police.
"You don't get to sacrifice the innocent life of someone else because you feel threatened," Appell told the jury. "She (Nourn) chose David Stevens to be the victim."
Defense attorney Doug Brown argued Nourn didn't intend to kill or hurt Stevens.
Brown called Barker a "psycho" who represented himself as a 20-year-old single man when he met the then-17-year-old Nourn, who spent the first five years of her life in a refugee camp along the Cambodia-Thailand border before her family fled to America.
Nourn was an inexperienced teen with self-esteem and emotional problems when she met Barker, her attorney said, characterizing her then as "a troubled little girl."
Brown said Barker raped and beat Nourn, shot at her, threatened her with a knife and burned her with an iron, calling him a "man who would not let her out of his claws."
He said Nourn lived under the fear that she and her family were going to be killed.
"(Barker) made her participate (in Stevens' murder)," Brown told the jury. "She never thought that Barker was going to kill David Stevens. He said, 'If you ever tell anybody about this, I'm going to kill you and I'm going to kill your family.'"
Doctors who evaluated Nourn determined that she was a victim of Battered Woman Syndrome, the attorney said.
Women who have been battered sometimes act out in an irrational way, Brown said. He said Nourn's fear of Barker was justified.
"This guy was a killer. He wasn't going to let her get in the way," Brown told jury.
20 comments:
That is the moral value of westerner trained women for you. I am sure they are very proud of it too.
REKSMEI KAMPUCHEA PAPER issued on 03/14/07, A woman was sentenced by Phnom Penh Municipal Court for conspiracy with her boyfirend to killing her husband and falsified report with police.
The value of who does train her to act? she is in Cambodia.
GOOD INFORM 9:40pm, BUT DO NOT WASR YOUR TIME WITH A STUPID MORONE!
THE CPP KIDS JUST STUPID LIKE THEIR FATHER AND MOTHERS!
9:40, are you telling us that Cambodia has not been westernized or something?
Westernized has nothing to do with it, and only someone with a low-IQ would attribute it to that. People, women or men who have been traumatized and have no identity can be prey to people like that Barker punk. But as we discussed on this blog earlier, with Duch, it isn't self-defence to have someone ELSE killed because you might be killed.
Wrong, when small Khmers tried to wear westerners' big pair of pant, they will trip and broke their noses.
Little Ny Nourn of Barrones Ave. in Mira Mesa...
Barker is Vietnamese.
Nourn is Cambodian.
They are both messed up in the head!
The commenters here are crazy.
"Westernized" has nothing to do with this. She and her MARRIED boyfriend were sociopaths. She is not a battered woman; she is not a victim.
And you know what? I don't know what David Stevens saw in her. She's ugly - inside AND out.
Terry C - NJ
i was bakers cellmate in 2002 he is a good man that let his hart get the best of him (if gilty)ill aways remember him my pray be with him....
ron is a very kind person always giving and taking care of his friend u have to know him to under stand. its sad to see him get life in'jail KID
If Ron was such a nice guy, why was he cheating on his wife for years with this ugly little Ny, who seemed to think she was god's gift to men.
"Wrong, when small Khmers tried to wear westerners' big pair of pant, they will trip and broke their noses."
THAT comment is so retarded, I don't even know how to begin to respond to it.
Barker is Vietnamese.
Why was he calling himself "Ron Barker"?
So, let me get this straight. 'Ron Barker' was 35 and married at the time.
Ny Nourn was a sheltered 18 year old kid. A *KID*. Cambodian or no, from the old country or no, a *KID*.
How sophisticated is a 35 year old?
An 18 year old?
I know you azn folks love to gang up on each other over drama like this but let me tell you- Kids will be kids. And this was a *kid* who got roped into a fatal mistake with a much older psychopath.
Ron the hill tribe wannabe should FRY for his crimes. And in Texas he would.
The last thing you guys need to be doing is jumping to conclusions over a badly reported case. I had to do more digging than normal just to even get data on this one..
-Drunken Economist, old Asia hand.
macho vietnamise. poor ron. now in cell can enjoy many men.
Didn't anybody listen when Barker said Ny wanted to leave me and I won't allow that. Did they listen when he repeated over and over that he "wanted to take her down". He took her into his home as a minor a refugee at that. He raped her and abused her. Then he lied to the police. They have proof of many of the lies including his allegation that she fired one of the shots. He lied and said the police coerced his confession. He is a classic abuser. He got her good, had her put in prison for his crime, one he would have inevitably committed anyway. She is only lucky he didn't kill her. That was next. I am very disappointed in our criminal justice system that they would pick and choose which of Barker's lies to believe and help him achieve his primary goal. The first one he stated "I want to take her down with me". Such a shame. Imagine being in Ny's position, now in prison in a foreign country after all she has been through. The criminal justice system helped her rapist and abuser, inflict one more injustice on her.
I just saw the csi show on this cold case. Both of them deserve to be in jail. They were horrible partners in this senseless crime. It is never ok to do this to an innocent person and has nothing to do with culture- Eastern or Western. What about the real victim here- David? What about his family? Ny fucked this guy on the first date, got caught, and tricked him only to be killed and for what. She made a choice, I hope they both rot in prison.
I just read the book about this case "No Good Deed."
Ms. Nourn was promiscuous. She was "hooking up" with men....strangers she met over the Internet. That's how she met Barker.
And what a creep he is. His wife has to be one of the stupidest people out there.
Has nothing to be with being "westernized." Both of these people are where they should be.
"in prison in a foreign country" -- bullshit.
She came to this country at a very early age. She knew the score.
There'S nothing sad about her situation she Is as as she is. If it where up tp me I would give my life to save the life of another. She could have gone to the police a while ago. She knew what she was doing it. She helped him by going along with the whole thing..
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