A person charged within the demise of Dennis Day, an unique forged member on Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Membership tv program, has been sentenced to barely greater than 4 years in jail.
Daniel Burda, 41, pleaded no contest Monday to prices of criminally negligent murder and abuse of a corpse. Prosecutors stated Burda brought on Day’s demise after which used Day’s identification to spend cash.
Burda was a live-in handyman at Day’s dwelling in Phoenix, Oregon. The 2 fell out, and Day had been making an attempt to evict him across the time he disappeared in mid-2018.
A no-contest plea is a concession that the state can show legal prices at trial and carries the identical authorized impact as a responsible plea.
Day’s physique wasn’t found for 9 months, however was finally discovered beneath a pile of garments on the dwelling. His situation left the medical expert unable to find out a reason behind demise.
His household has since sued the Phoenix Police Division, claiming emotional misery.
Burda’s legal case was delayed by journeys to the Oregon State Hospital to find out his psychological health to help in his personal protection, in addition to different authorized challenges. He confronted a number of different prices whereas out of custody, court docket data present.
Burda was initially taken into custody on suspicion of manslaughter, criminally negligent murder, abuse of a corpse, legal mistreatment, and identification theft in reference to Day’s demise, The Oregonian reported.
He was already in custody on an unrelated theft case when he was moreover charged in Day’s demise.
The arrest got here after police picked up two Oregon girls final month on prices associated to the theft of a number of of Day’s private gadgets.
Wanda Garcia and Lori Declusin confronted felony prices for allegedly stealing the previous actor’s white Nineteen Nineties Ford Escort station wagon. Garcia additionally was accused of promoting a brooch that belonged to Day in July 2018, lower than every week after he was final seen alive.
Born in 1942, Day started performing at age 6. The previous Disney star was 76 when he was first reported lacking by his husband, Ernie Caswell.
