San Diego man guilty in ’03 slaying
A San Diego man has been convicted of murdering one former girlfriend and acquitted in the killing of another.
The verdicts were announced Tuesday in San Diego County Superior Court.
Mark Jeffrey Brown could have faced the death penalty if convicted of both killings.
Defense attorney Don Levine says Brown was found guilty of strangling Faye Williams in 2003, but jurors weren’t convinced that Charmaine Cannon’s death eight years earlier was a homicide.
Williams’ body was found in the Otay Mesa riverbed about three months after she disappeared.
Cannon’s body was found in her apartment in June 1995 by deputies serving an eviction notice.
Levine contends she died of an overdose.
Brown could be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
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