27 January 2015 :

Bradley Martin was resentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Martin, now 44, White, had been sentenced to die in 1994 for the September 15, 1993 murder of Guy Goodman, 74, White. Senior Judge Robert J. Eby, who sentenced Martin 20 years ago to the death penalty, ruled in December that he would sentence Martin to life behind bars. Eby stated in the Dec. 5 ruling that he was precluding the prosecution from continuing to seek the death penalty because Martin had been offered a plea as part of a package deal with his co-defendant Carolyn King. King refused to plead guilty, the 2 went to trial and were convicted of 1st-degree murder for killing Guy Goodman. The jury decided that Martin and King should receive the death penalty for killing Goodman. He said his December ruling was not a change of heart about the death penalty. "In my opinion, that sentence was appropriate," Eby said. But the process that ended with Martin receiving the death sentence was flawed, he added. District Attorney David Arnold said his office decided not to appeal Eby's December ruling. He said Goodman's son and daughter along with the detectives who worked the case had collectively agreed with that decision. The district attorney said he expects the same result in King's case. A hearing is scheduled for March 3 on a defense motion to preclude the prosecution from pursuing the death penalty. By agreeing to the life sentence, Martin gives up his right to file any more appeals in state or federal court. Martin was 22 at the time of the murder; King was 28. Martin and King stole Goodman's car, credit card and checkbook and drove to North Dakota where they abducted and killed a 59-year-old woman. They were arrested in Arizona after a police chase on Oct. 5, 1993. Martin and King pleaded guilty to 1st-degree murder in the death of Donna Martz and were sentenced to life in prison in Nevada. The Nevada sentence is consecutive to Martin's sentence for the Goodman murder. (See also March 5, 2004)