Eu’s Attacker Gets 25 Years

Saying there is “nothing to recommend him for any leniency at all,” a judge on Thursday sentenced Gregory Lee Moore to 25 years in state prison for a series of residential break-ins that included the beating and robbery of California Secretary of State March Fong Eu.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dion G. Morrow read through Moore’s lengthy record of burglaries, robberies and assaults dating back to 1972, when Moore was 13, and said the files reveal “a total life picture and profile of criminality. . . . “

“Based on that litany of unhappiness, it is my intention to sentence him to a maximum term,” Morrow said. “He is a danger to the community.”

Moore, 28, will receive credit for the 324 days he has been in custody since his arrest and 162 days of “good time.”

A jury last month found Moore guilty of 10 felonies related to six burglaries and robberies in Hancock Park and Beverly Hills dating back to last Oct. 20.

Eu was unable to positively identify Moore during the trial, but jurors said that did not trouble them. They said the decisive piece of evidence linking Moore to the Nov. 10 attack on Eu was a blood-stained envelope bearing his fingerprint that was found a block from her Hancock Park residence.

In addition, a bloody print of a sneaker that matched the shoes Moore was wearing when he was arrested was found on a tile floor in the Eu home, according to prosecutors.

Eu, who suffered three broken ribs and cuts about the face and head in the attack, did not appear in court Thursday, but she submitted a letter to the judge in which she urged that Moore, who beat her with the dull end of a hatchet, be imprisoned for “the longest term possible. . . . “

“Society must take steps to protect itself from the likes of this defendant,” she wrote. “Any release is too soon. No sentence is too long.”