Rod Poole, microtonal gtr - Mel's Slay Suspects Sentenced

Mel's Slay Suspects Sentenced
by Steven Mikulan
October 7, 2008 1:21 PM

Capping a morning of impassioned defense pleas and emotional victim-impact statements, Judge Michael E. Pastor passed down sentences for second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, respectively, on Michael Sheridan and his wife, Angela, for the 2007 Mother's Day slaying of musician Rod Poole. Pool, 45, had confronted the pair after Angela Sheridan, then 24, bumped a busboy as she maneuvered her car in the Hollywood parking lot of Mel�s Diner. Within moments of exchanging words with Ms. Sheridan, Poole was on the ground while she kicked his head and her husband, then 25, stabbed him half a dozen times. (See June 14, 2007 L.A. Weekly feature.) Michael�s mother and his two-year-old son remained in the car.

Pastor threw the proverbial book at Michael Sheridan, giving him an indeterminate sentence of 15 years to life in state prison, and for good measure tossed on three years for a probation violation; the sentences will run consecutively but will, said his attorney, Alba Marrero, be appealed. Angela received a �mid-base term� of three years; however, with 771 days of custody credits, she will be free in less than a year. She and her attorney, Jana Seng, seemed satisfied, although the prevailing mood in a courtroom filled with supporters of victims and perpetrators alike was gloom.

�What sane person,� Poole�s widow, Lisa, asked the court, �carries a knife in their car on Mother�s Day, with their child and their mother in the car?�

Judge Proctor had no answer, other than to say that Mr. Sheridan�s �conduct is egregious beyond words. It�s cowardly and presents a danger to society.�

<http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/trials/mels-slay-suspects-sentenced/>

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Killer of guitarist Rod Poole sentenced
Oct. 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The wife of guitarist Roderick Poole called her husband a champion of the underdog during the Los Angeles sentencing of his killer.

Michael Sheridan was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the May 2007 stabbing death of Poole during a dispute that began when Poole yelled at Sheridan after he and his wife nearly ran over another man in the parking lot of a Hollywood diner.

The Los Angeles Times said Wednesday that Lisa Ladaw told the courtroom that Poole hadn't been looking for trouble when they went to Mel's Drive-in to celebrate Mother's Day but shouted at Sheridan after he bumped into a restaurant employee in the lot.

Sheridan was convicted of stabbing Poole six times with a steak knife and then speeding away with his wife behind the wheel and young son sitting in the back seat.

"He would speak for the underdog, he would speak for people who needed to be defended," Ladaw said of Poole.

The Times described the British-born Poole as a fixture in the Los Angeles experimental music scene who had been focused on composing in recent years.

<http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/08/Killer_of_guitarist_Rod_Poole_sentenced/UPI-29151223477296/>

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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@...> wrote:
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> Mel's Slay Suspects Sentenced
> by Steven Mikulan
> October 7, 2008 1:21 PM

Thanks for the update, David. -Carl

A very important artist of intonation was taken from us. And I must add that i, like others, also lost a friend.
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