Is there any new information about the murder trial of Arthur James Battle III?
Anonymous from Sacramento Battle, 20, is one of three suspects whose homicide trials are in a continuance over a murder-for-hire plot, according to Sacramento Superior Court records. Vardan Abramyan, the 21-year-old son of the victim, and Isaiah Barron, 21, are the other two suspects. One suspect, Jason McKinley Dillingham, 20, was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In a plea agreement, a fifth suspect, a then-16-year-old juvenile, pleaded guilty to a charge of felony accessory to a crime in the July 31, 2006, slaying of Norik Abramyan, 45, outside a Hollywood Video store on Watt Avenue, according to reports in The Bee. The juvenile agreed to testify against the other suspects, The Bee reported. Prosecutors allege that Battle and Dillingham each shot the victim, The Bee reported. What was the outcome of the investigation into the head-on collision that killed well-known Sacramento musician Erik Kleven on July 15, 2006,
