Upset over denied access to childhood home
District Attorney Jan Scully announced today that Calvin Lynn was convicted by jury of first degree murder in the beating death of his brother.
On August 22, 2007, the decomposed body of the defendant’s 54 year old brother Lawrence Lynn was found tightly wrapped in a blanket and concealed amongst the weeds in the backyard of a vacant house in Del Paso Heights. The victim had been bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat.
A blood trail led down the sidewalk directly to the victim's nearby home. The victim was living in the house, where he and his siblings were raised. For several years, 51 year old Calvin Lynn had tried to gain possession of the house and remove his brother from the home.
Crime Scene Investigators from the Sacramento Police Department discovered that the defendant had attempted to clean up the house after the murder and had used paint to conceal the bloody carpet.
During a subsequent search of the defendant's house, a pair of his shoes had paint and blood on them. DNA analysis confirmed that the blood on the defendant's shoes was the victim's and trace evidence examination by the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Crime Lab found a microscopic purple fiber embedded in a dried spot of the victim's blood on the defendant's shoe.
Fiber analysis confirmed that the fiber matched the blanket used to conceal the victim's body. Deputy District Attorney Sheri Greco states, “Today’s conviction is the result of the strong evidence presented to the jury. I commend the Sacramento Police Department’s CSI unit and the Sacramento County District Attorney Crime Lab for their good work in this case.”
Sentencing is scheduled for July 30, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. in Dept. 25 before the Honorable Kevin McCormick.
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