By
Mike Bodine/Register Staff
The verdict is in on murder suspect Louis LePlat. He has been found guilty of second-degree murder and found not guilty of murder in the first-degree. The state mandated sentence for the offense is 15 years to life. LePalt will be sentenced at 8:30 a.m. on May 27 in Ventura.
Case information from Ventura County Superior Court states the jury was reportedly âhungâ on the first-degree murder charge the day before finding LePlat guilty of second-degree murder on April 29.