3 Convicted of Murder in Shooting of Woman, 60 : Crime: Two defendants now face a death penalty hearing. The third faces an automatic sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

Two men and a woman were found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 60-year-old Anaheim woman whose husband had let them into their home believing that they wanted to buy his Corvette.

The jurors, who took five hours to determine the verdicts for all three, will return Feb. 27 for the death penalty hearing for the two male defendants--Robert (T-Bone) Taylor, 39, of Sunset Beach and Norman James Dewitt, 34, of Cypress.

Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty for the third, Nanette Scheid, 29, of Newport Beach. Scheid was accused of “softening up” the victims by convincing them that she and Taylor, her boyfriend, were serious about buying the $20,000 car, which Taylor ended up stealing.

“This killing could not have taken place without Miss Scheid,” Deputy Dist. Atty. Bryan F. Brown told jurors in his closing arguments.

Ryoko Hanano was found shot to death July 10, 1988, in the bedroom of the couple’s Nutwood Avenue home. She had been handcuffed to her husband, Kazumi Hanano, now 65, who had also been shot. Kazumi Hanano was left permanently paralyzed from the chest down, although he has the use of his hands. The killers had covered the couple’s heads with a mattress to muffle the sound of the shots. Kazumi Hanano lay there unable to move until their son Dean discovered the scene about six hours later.

Scheid, who maintained that she was unaware that Taylor had planned anything other than buying the car, stared straight ahead as the clerk read the jurors’ verdicts.

Her attorney, Charles P. Margines, said he was shocked by how quickly the jurors wound up their deliberations.

The jurors first went out last Thursday afternoon. They were off Friday, and resumed their deliberations Monday morning. By noon, they reported that they had reached their verdicts.

“I don’t know if the fact she was sitting next to the other two defendants had anything to do with it,” Margines said. “I can tell you I certainly didn’t expect to be here today, and I didn’t expect this result.”

Neither Taylor nor Dewitt showed any emotion as the verdicts were read. Taylor sipped from a cup of water, and Dewitt leaned back in his chair and tapped a pen on the table.

Taylor has admitted his role in the killing, including shooting the victims.

Dewitt has not admitted involvement, but his attorney, aware that the case against him was overwhelming, concentrated his efforts on a legal issue--whether Dewitt meant for anyone to be killed--in an attempt to spare him from being subject to the death penalty.

Hanano testified from his wheelchair that Scheid had come to the house early in the evening of July 10 to test-drive the Corvette. She returned with Taylor and Dewitt two hours later. Hanano testified that the two men appeared so disheveled that he would not have let them into his house but that he did so because he trusted Scheid.

Scheid was carrying a briefcase containing a .45-caliber handgun and a 9-millimeter gun Brown described as a small machine gun. Scheid, a secretary who admitted having a serious cocaine problem, testified that she thought the briefcase contained Taylor’s cash to buy the Corvette. She said she had only known him a few days and had no reason to doubt his claim that he had come into some money through an insurance settlement.

Testimony from Hanano and Scheid was in agreement that Scheid left the house before Taylor and Dewitt drew any guns. But when Brown asked her to show the jury how Taylor had first handed her the briefcase, she almost dropped it because it was so heavy. Brown then slowly walked back to the counsel table and opened it: He had placed the guns inside.

“There is no way anybody could think there was money inside that briefcase,” Brown told the jury.

Taylor’s and Dewitt’s attorneys put on nominal defenses for the guilt phase of the trial. Both were expected to concentrate on the penalty phase.

At that time, the jurors must choose, separately for each defendant, between two verdicts: life without possibility of parole or the death penalty.

The jurors returned every guilty verdict prosecutors sought: first-degree murder, attempted murder, robbery and burglary for Taylor and Dewitt. Scheid faced all the same charges except attempted murder.

Scheid faces an automatic sentence of 25 years to life in prison when she is sentenced by Superior Court Judge Francisco P. Briseno. Her attorney asked the judge to wait until after the penalty phase for the other two before setting her sentencing date.