LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Los Angeles woman who pleaded guilty to murdering a man, his mother and stepfather after she had been allowed to stay at the man's Leimert Park home was sentenced Tuesday to 75 years to life in state prison.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen said his heart goes out to the family of 65-year-old Phillip White, his 79-year-old mother, Orsie Carter, and his 83-year-old stepfather, William Carter.
"I'll say it now -- Don't be stupid. That's my words to a future parole board," the judge said of any future consideration of parole for Nancy Amelia Jackson.
As part of a plea deal, the 61-year-old defendant agreed to waive credit for all time she had already served in custody since she was arrested by Los Angeles police one day after the May 22, 2018, killings.
White had allowed Jackson to stay at his home for about six weeks because she was in between places to live, according to Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson, who said efforts had been underway to try to get her out of the house.
White and his mother were shot in the chest and head, respectively, and the woman's husband died of blunt force head trauma, according to records from the medical examiner's office.
White's brother, Terry, said he thinks about his slain family every day.
He said Jackson's move into the house started with her asking to keep a couple of boxes in the garage and that "before you knew it," she was staying in the house.
"He didn't have peace in his own home," the victim's brother said, noting that Jackson had been scheduled to move out of the house.
White's daughter, Nicole Giles, said she was in the downtown Los Angeles courtroom to show up for her father and grandparents "the only way I can," just as they were there for every milestone in her life.
"I love them and I miss them," she said.
White's brother-in-law, Gilbert Wright, said the victims' lives "were suddenly snatched from them," and said he thinks back not only about the deaths, but which one must have been experiencing "sheer terror" after seeing the other two victims get shot and knowing they were going to be next.
Wright -- a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who objected to the plea agreement -- said the convicted killer will be eligible for parole in 20 years under the state's elderly parole program.
"Ms. Jackson should never get out of jail," he said in an emotional statement. "Surviving family members do not want her released -- ever."
Wright, who has spent nearly 35 years with the District Attorney's Office, said outside court that he was "extremely upset" by the plea deal.
"I don't know why they did this," he said, calling the crime a "cold, callous, brutal execution."
Defense attorney Angela Cheung countered that the plea deal was an equitable and just disposition of the case.
At a news conference shortly after Jackson's arrest, Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Peter Whittingham told reporters that it was "a case where you have somebody who was down and out on their luck, it appears, and found somebody, a kind-hearted, giving person, to provide help and support and give her a chance to get off the street."
"But in so doing, she also used that opportunity, in my view, to manipulate Mr. Phillip White, who as we know was disabled, and take unfair advantage of him and his kindness," the LAPD captain said then.
White's mother, who was her son's legal caretaker, had insisted that Jackson leave, "and nobody was going to get between her and a good thing," Whittingham said.
The bodies were found inside White's home in the 3900 block of South Bronson Avenue.
"Without being too vivid, it's a case where you have three bodies piled on each other," Whittingham said shortly after Jackson was taken into custody. "... It's just a sad way to spend your last days or your last breath."