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Penn Live
April 7, 2015
Three days before jury selection was to start for his death penalty trial, a Harrisburg man pleaded no contest to first-degree murder Friday in return for a life sentence for killing an 87-year-old woman in Dauphin County.
The fatal stabbing of Joyce Roth during a June 2013 burglary at her son’s Derry Township home was part of a failed plot by DaJuan Porter to scare a witness out of testifying against him in a sexual assault case, First Assistant District Attorney Fran Chardo said.
Porter, 31, also pleaded no contest to burglarizing the home where Roth was slain on June 10, 2013 and of setting a fire that same night at the Lower Paxton Township home of the family of one of the sexual assault victims.
“You left a terrible toll in your wake,” President Judge Richard A. Lewis told Porter as he imposed a life prison term for the murder plea, plus a consecutive 20- to 40-year jail term for the pleas to the burglary and arson charges.
Prosecutors had been seeking the death penalty for Porter and jury selection was set to begin Monday for his capital murder trial. Chardo said members of Roth’s family, who watched the plea and sentencing but did not speak, approved offering Porter a life sentence.
