Legal Justice
Disbarred lawyer sentenced in homicide of artwork seller, plot to steal his possessions
July 23, 2025, 3:23 pm CDT
A Riverside County, California, decide on Friday sentenced disbarred lawyer David Replogle, 76, (left) for a 2008 homicide of a Palm Springs, California, artwork seller and a plot to steal the slain man’s cash and possession. (Picture from the Riverside County, California, district legal professional’s workplace’s July 18 press launch)
A disbarred lawyer has been sentenced to life in jail with out potential parole after his conviction in a retrial for his function in a 2008 homicide of a Palm Springs, California, artwork seller and a plot to steal the slain man’s cash and possessions.
Former lawyer David Replogle, 76, was sentenced within the Riverside County Superior Courtroom in California on July 18, in line with a July 18 press launch.
Prosecutors mentioned Replogle was a part of a six-person scheme wherein the artwork seller, 74-year-old Clifford Lambert, was fatally stabbed and his checking account drained of greater than $185,000. Replogle cast power-of-attorney paperwork that allowed co-conspirators to take the cash and tried to liquidate Lambert’s house and artwork assortment, prosecutors mentioned.
The house sale wasn’t accomplished after Lambert’s private lawyer noticed grant deeds transferring the property, in line with earlier protection.
Lambert’s physique had been buried off a mountainside in Los Angeles.
Replogle was convicted of eight felonies within the August 2022 retrial, together with first-degree homicide, prison conspiracy, housebreaking, grand theft, id theft and forgery.
Replogle and two different co-defendants have been retried after a decide within the preliminary trial was caught on a co-defendant’s laptop computer saying he feared catching HIV from envelopes containing professional se motions as a result of that they had been licked closed.
“Lord is aware of the place his tongue has been,” the decide reportedly mentioned, referring to a co-defendant who was homosexual and HIV optimistic. The co-defendant, Kaushal Niroula, was killed in jail earlier than his retrial.
The 2 different retried defendants, together with the person who allegedly carried out the stabbing, have been sentenced to life in jail with out parole, in line with the Bay Space Reporter. A fourth co-defendant pleaded responsible to manslaughter and a fifth pleaded responsible to fraud, the Desert Solar reviews through Yahoo Information.
Replogle was the ultimate defendant to be sentenced. He informed the Bay Space Reporter in a earlier interview that the trial was unfair, and he was not allowed to name witnesses that may have helped his case. He has mentioned he acted underneath duress, ABC 7 Information reviews.
One of many co-defendants, Miguel Bustamante, informed the Bay Space Reporter that he thinks that Replogle acted underneath risk from Niroula, who implied that he would hurt Replogle’s mom if he didn’t cooperate.
Bustamante was accused of finishing up the deadly stabbing after Niroula let him and Bustamante’s roommate into Lambert’s house. Niroula had posed as an legal professional who had details about an inheritance.
Replogle has indicated that he’ll enchantment, in line with the Desert Solar.
Replogle had beforehand represented one of many co-defendants in a sexual molestation case and obtained a $10 million settlement, in line with earlier protection.
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