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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — UPDATED: 5/19/23 at 6:25PM Judge Brehmer said the jury reached a verdict yesterday afternoon right around 4:40. Friday they announced their verdict to a packed courtroom. Friday, a Kern County jury making a historic decision-finding Trezell and Jacqueline West guilty of five out of seven counts in connection to the deaths of their adoptive children 3-year-old Orson Wear and 4-year-old Orrin West.

Trezell and Jacqueline West were found guilty of five out of seven counts. The counts they were found guilty of were: Count one-Second degree murder Count two-Involuntary manslaughter Count three-Willful cruelty to child Count six-Willful cruelty to child Count seven-False report of emergency to law enforcement Count four-Conspire to commit a crime Count five-Second degree murder Counts one through three were related to Orrin and counts four through six were related to Orson.

Count seven was concerning both boys. The jury voted eight votes guilty to four votes not guilty for count four and ten votes guilty and two votes not guilty for count five. “The district attorney will decide what to do with those counts at the next hearing,” local Criminal Defense Mark Anthony Raimondo said. Raimondo was not involved in the case. “It would be unlikely they would probably go forward given they’ll get multiple life sentences for the charges that they were convicted of today,” Raimondo said.

Raimondo was in the courtroom when the verdicts were read. “The second-degree murder carried a life sentence,” Raimondo said. “The willful cruelty to a child resulting in death also carried a life sentence,” Raimondo said. “It will be I believe most likely consecutive life sentences.

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