Former Marine sentenced in stabbing death of Palm Springs retiree

A Daly City man who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the financially motivated killing of a 74-year-old Palm Springs retiree was sentenced today to 25 years and four months in prison.

(Flickr: Phil Roeder)

(Flickr: Phil Roeder)

Craig Anthony McCarthy, a 33-year-old former U.S. Marine, also admitted to charges of robbery, carjacking, burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft, accessory to a murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit identity theft in the Dec. 5, 2008, stabbing death of Clifford Lambert.

He entered the pleas in Aug. 2010.

McCarthy is the last of six people charged in connection with Lambert’s case to be sentenced.

 

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