Date: September 21, 2006

 

 

          Case:            People v. Kristopher Kirchner & Jayson Weaver

 

          Contact:        Scott Divine

                             StateTargeted Offenses Program

                             (916) 874-7321

 

District Attorney Jan Scully announced that on September 20, 2006, Kristopher Kirchner, age 29, and Jayson Weaver, age 29, were sentenced by the honorable Judge James Long based upon their August 1, 2006 convictions for assault by a life prisoner on another inmate and possession of an inmate manufactured weapon.  A jury also found that Mr. Kirchner and Mr. Weaver personally used deadly weapons and personally caused great bodily injury.   Mr. Kirchner was sentenced to a total of 34 years to life based in part on his two prior strike convictions, one of which was a murder committed in 1993.  Mr. Weaver was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for 27 years based in part on his prior strike conviction for a murder committed in 1994.

 

On the afternoon of November 3, 2002, while cell-mates Kristopher Kirchner and Jayson Weaver were on the exercise yard of the prison, they attacked another inmate, Jeffers Dickey, with metal weapons approximately 5-6” long, sharpened to a point at one end.  The defendants stabbed Mr. Dickey repeatedly with the inmate manufactured weapons.  The victim suffered multiple, serious stab wounds to the face, chest, and back.  At the time of this offense, Mr. Kirchner was serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for a 1993 murder committed when he was 16 years old.  Mr. Weaver was serving a sentence of 25 years to life for a 1994 murder committed when he was 16 years old.

 

On September 21, 2006, in what appeared to be a continuing pattern of violence, Deputy District Attorney Divine was informed that after Mr. Kirchner’s sentencing on September 20, 2006, Mr. Kirchner was allegedly involved in another stabbing of an inmate at the prison.