Seth Cravens Found Guilty For The Murder Of Pro Surfer Emery Kauanui

In front of a jury today in a San Diego Courtroom, Seth Cravens was found guilty for the murder of professional surfer Emery Kauanui.  Cravens was charged for the murder of Kauanui outside his mother’s home in La Jolla California.  Seth and his crew called “The Bird Rock Bandits” tracked down Seth at his mother’s house after an altercation took place at a local bar. 

As far as I’m concerned, they should lock up all these stupid ass Bird Rock Bandits for life.  Let these Bird Crap scum rot in there.  Read the entire article below from signonsandiego.com

SAN DIEGO – A San Diego Superior Court jury found Seth Cravens guilty of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal beating last year of a professional surfer in La Jolla.

Sentencing was set for Jan. 12. Cravens’ defense lawyer said they would appeal the verdict.

Prosecutors had contended that Cravens, 22, was one of a group of five men who attacked Emery Kauanui, 24, on May 24, 2007, outside Kauanui’s mother’s home.

Cravens’ attorney, Mary Ellen Attridge, had told jurors that her client acted in self-defense. Prosecutors contended that the only person who acted in self-defense was Kauanui, who suffered a skull fracture and died in the hospital four days later.

The five men, all graduates of La Jolla High School, were called the Bird Rock Bandits and had engaged in many alcohol-fueled fights in the neighborhood over several years, prosecutors said during the trial.

Jurors were instructed to consider lesser offenses of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter if Cravens was acquited of second-degree murder, which carries a possible prison sentence of 15 years to life.

Jurors began deliberating the case on Nov. 10 after a two-week trial. The court was closed on Tuesday for Veterans Day. The panel of nine men and three women deliberated full days on Wednesday and Thursday.

For a time Monday, the jury was split 11-1. Whether the jury was leaning toward conviction or acquittal at that point was not disclosed at that time.

According to testimony, Cravens and four others – Eric House, Matthew Yanke, Orlando Osuna and Henri “Hank” Hendricks – left a La Jolla bar where House and Kauanui had gotten into an altercation.

The men drove to Kauanui’s mother’s home on Draper Avenue in La Jolla, where the fight broke out. At one point during the skirmish, Kauanui rose to his feet after being on the ground, according to testimony. He argued with Cravens, who witnesses said hit Kauanui once in the jaw, knocking him to the ground.

Yanke, House and Osuna pleaded guilty in June to involuntary manslaughter. House and Yanke were ordered to serve 210 days each in county jail. Osuna received the longest jail term at 349 days.