CENTENNIAL — An ex-Marine and Hurricane Katrina evacuee has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the shooting death of a 62-year-old woman.
John Doubleday was sentenced Friday. He was convicted Aug. 11 of second-degree murder and felony murder. Prosecutors say Doubleday killed Jutte Gallegos Burton during a December 2006 robbery at a 7-Eleven in Aurora. Police say Doubleday and his girlfriend arrived in Colorado in the evacuation of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina came ashore in August 2005.
Doubleday’s felony murder conviction carried a mandatory life sentence, but a judge had to decide whether that conviction would stick. That’s because jurors acquitted Doubleday of aggravated robbery, disagreeing on whether he had been forced to hold up the store by drug dealers. But the felony he’s accused of committing under the felony-murder conviction is robbery. Denver Post staff and wire reports
