Apr 27, 2018

Caleb Dain Silver found guilty of first degree murder


A Mendocino County Superior Court jury returned from its deliberations by mid-afternoon today to announce a guilty verdict and true findings on special allegations in a 2015 murder case.



The jury found Caleb Dain Silver, age 27, a transient on the Mendocino coast, guilty of the murder in the first degree of Dennis Boardman in December 2015.  The jury also found true special allegations that the defendant personally used a hammer and a knife in the commission of the murder.

With the defendant demanding a speedy imposition of sentence, a sentencing hearing was calendared for May 16, 2018 at 9 o'clock in the morning in Department H of the Ukiah courthouse. Anybody interested in this case or this defendant is welcome to attend that hearing.

The prosecutor who presented the People's evidence against defendant Silver was Deputy District Attorney Tim Stoen. 

The law enforcement agencies that diligently gathered the necessary evidence in this case were the lead agency, the Fort Bragg Police Department, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, the Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force, the California Highway Patrol, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, the Department of Justice forensic crime lab, and the District Attorney's own investigators.  The trial was conducted before the Honorable John Behnke, judge of the Mendocino County Superior Court.

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