Felon Found Guilty of Fatally Beating His Grandmother
RIVERSIDE (CNS) – A convicted felon who fatally beat his 83-year-old grandmother during an argument at her Menifee home is facing a minimum of 20 years to life in state prison for the crime of second-degree murder and other offenses, of which a jury convicted him after only a few hours of deliberations.
Andrew Daniel Joseph, 45, was found guilty on Monday of the murder count, along with elder abuse and a sentence-enhancing allegation of inflicting great bodily injury on a person over 70 years old for the 2020 death of Ethel Mae Hayes.
The prosecution and defense concluded closing statements in the weeklong trial Monday morning, and jurors went behind closed doors that afternoon, returning with verdicts by the close of the day…