CASE OF INTEREST

Date: 07/06/05 

Case: People v. William Adam Kriske, 04F01142

Contact: Deputy District Attorney Caryn McInerney Dubke,
Felony Trials, (916) 874-5816
  
District Attorney Jan Scully announced that today, in Department 18 of the Superior Court, The Honorable Judge Meegan sentenced William Kriske to three consecutive 25-to-life terms for a total of 75 years to life for convictions of first degree burglary, attempted carjacking, and resisting arrest, plus an additional eight year sentence enhancement for prior felony convictions of a serious or violent offense.

In February of 2004, defendant Kriske broke into Carolyn Lisle’s Rancho Cordova home while she and three friends were watching television at 9:00 p.m. Defendant Kriske walked through the closed sliding glass door with an axe handle in his hands. He chased Carolyn Lisle’s friends out of the front door while Carolyn Lisle went to her bedroom and retrieved her gun. Ms. Lisle shot the defendant in the wrist while he was coming toward her on her front porch.  

Defendant then attempted to carjack a different victim up the street. When that victim fought him off, defendant went further up the street. Later, while defendant was being treated inside the ambulance, he charged at and nearly struck a Sheriff’s deputy with a closed fist.

Judge Meegan declined to strike, under Romero, defendant’s 1974 juvenile adjudication for assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, which was one of the two strike priors that led to today’s sentence.

According to Deputy District Attorney Caryn McInerney Dubke, “William Kriske is a violent career criminal who absolutely terrorized the victim and her friends during this crime spree. That Rancho Cordova neighborhood came together against the defendant that day and today’s sentence ensures that he will never harm another citizen.”

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