FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
| For Release: | June 8, 2016 |
| Contact Person: | Shelly W Akamatsu |
| Deputy Prosecuting Attorney | |
| 208-287-7700 |
Anthony Robins Jr., 36, of Fremont, California, was sentenced on June 7, 2016, to life with forty years fixed for two counts of Aiding and Abetting First Degree Murder by the Honorable Samuel A. Hoagland. Robins also received a fifteen year sentence for Aiding and Abetting Attempted First Degree Murder. In January, an Ada County jury found Robins guilty of hiring a hit man to murder Boise men Elliot Bailey and Travonte Calloway and attempting to murder Jeanette Juraska. The jury heard evidence Robins ran a marijuana distribution business from California and organized the murders because he believed Calloway and Bailey had stolen 30 pounds of marijuana from him in October, 2013. Robins must serve forty years in prison before he will be eligible for parole.
In a separate courtroom, Samari Winn, 35, of Boise was sentenced June 8, 2016, to the same life sentence with forty years fixed for two counts of Aiding and Abetting First Degree Murder by the Honorable Lynn Norton. Winn also received a sentence of fifteen years fixed for Aiding and Abetting the Attempted Murder. In April, an Ada County jury found Winn guilty after hearing evidence that he set up the two victims and led the shooter to their apartment where they were killed by John Douglas, the Pennsylvania hit man hired by Robins. Winn must serve forty years in prison before he will be eligible for parole.
John Douglas will be sentenced before Judge Hoagland on August 23, 2016, at 3:00 p.m.
Judge Samuel F. Hoagland presided over the trial and ordered sentencing to occur on April 15, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Douglas and Robins are facing up to life in prison on each murder count.
John C. Douglas, 46, of Reading, Pennsylvania, was convicted of two counts of First Degree Murder for the deaths of Travonte Calloway and Eliot Bailey, and one count of Attempted First Degree Murder against Jeanette Juraska. An Ada County Jury deliberated four hours before returning unanimous verdicts this morning.