California synagogue shooter pleads guilty to more than 100 federal hate crimes - NBC News
The California man who opened fire on a Poway synagogue in a 2019 attack that killed one person and wounded others pleaded guilty to more than 100 federal hate crime charges Friday.Earnest, 22, earlier this year pleaded guilty to state counts and agreed to a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California said.
The state plea agreement avoided the possibility of the death penalty.The agreed-upon sentence in that case is life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 121 years, the district attorney has said.
The federal crimes carried the possibility of a death sentence, but on Aug.