On May 22, a Stamford man, 54-year-old Robert Simmons, was condemned to a greatest term of 85 years for the homicide of 93-year-old Isabella Mehner during a home attack in Stamford, Connecticut. Judge Gary White gave over a lifelong incarceration, which is viewed as a “lifelong incarceration” under state resolution, for Simmons’ conviction of homicide in the beating demise of Mehner on September 25, 2019.
Judge White forced a 60-year sentence, identical to a lifelong incarceration, for the homicide conviction. Simmons will start carrying out this punishment in the wake of finishing a 25-year jail term for the home intrusion and first-degree thievery convictions for the situation. The adjudicator portrayed the killing as fierce, intolerable, superfluous, and totally inappropriate.
That’s what investigators expressed, in the wake of leading a dissection the day following the homicide, the clinical analyst reasoned that Isabella Mehner’s passing inside her Stamford home was, to be sure, a consequence of murder.
Ellen Blanchard, the little girl of Isabella Mehner, found her mom’s dormant body on September 25, 2019. She had gone to her mom’s home on Bay Street in Stamford, Connecticut, in the wake of being not able to contact her via telephone.
Ellen Blanchard communicated significant bitterness, outrage, and a deficiency of will to live. She couldn’t shake the awful picture of her mom’s last minutes.
As per the police, reconnaissance cameras in the Stamford area caught Simmons entering Mehner’s Stamford home that night and leaving only eight minutes after the fact. Simmons had recently worked at the house while utilized by a pipes organization possessed by one of Mehner’s relatives.
Specialists likewise found Mehner’s blood on Simmons’ jeans and his DNA under her fingernails. Furthermore, Mehner’s wedding and wedding bands were absent, alongside cash from her wallet, as per a report by News12.
Also, the police detailed that Simmons gave conflicting records of the occasions of that evening, with his story changing during each meeting. At first, Simmons denied knowing Mehner, then conceded realizing her however asserted he was not at her home. Afterward, Simmons admitted to going to Mehner’s home to request cash for a brew and cigarette. He demanded that Mehner was as yet alive when he left.
Robert Simmons’ safeguard lawyer, Kevin Dark, kept up with his client’s blamelessness in regards to Mehner’s demise and made a movement for exoneration or another preliminary. In any case, the movement was denied by Judge White.
Yet, Dark brought up Simmons’ set of experiences of serious substance misuse and bipolar problem, alongside his own horrible past. He lost his dad to kill early in life. So his lawyer pursued for the base sentence of 25 years.
Then again, Collaborator State’s Lawyer Elizabeth Moran required the most extreme punishment against Simmons, refering to his unfortunate activities during the home intrusion and murder. She underscored such Mehner’s reality was pointlessly assumed control over something as minor as a brew, a cigarette, and a couple of dollars.
Mehner’s relatives were likewise offered the chance to share their effect articulations before Simmons’ condemning. Ellen Blanchard, Mehner’s little girl, related the injury of finding her mom’s inert and battered body at the lower part of the storm cellar steps and underscored that her mom reserved the privilege to live, a right ruthlessly removed by Simmons.
HAPPENING TODAY: Robert Simmons will be sentenced for the murder of a 93-year-old Stamford woman in 2019. A jury convicted him of burglary, home invasion, and killing Isabella Mehner at her home on Cove Road. @News12CT pic.twitter.com/lltugrbC2U
— Marissa Alter (@MarissaAlter) May 22, 2023
Maryanne Crane, Mehner’s most youthful sister, composed a letter deploring the horrendous way wherein her sister was killed in Stamford. She featured that their family not just lost a sister, mother, and grandma that day yet additionally the guardian of their family ancestry.
Kathy Mehner, Isabella Mehner’s girl in-regulation, marked Simmons as a defeatist for going after an unprotected 93-year-old. She communicated her longing for his discipline to reflect the mercilessness he caused for Mehner in her Stamford home, recommending six slams to the head and two broken fingers.
After the condemning, Ellen Blanchard, pondering the condemning, recognized that, while she was happy Simmons gotten 85 years, she accepted capital punishment would have given the conclusion that her mom merited.
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