"Ryan Garner, 42, again refused to be transported to court as he did Dec. 8 but his Monday sentencing by Judge Hanley Chew went on without him. Vanessa McCarthy, Garner's aunt and sister of victim Cynthia Mykkanen, addressed the absence in a victim impact statement. I'm very disappointed that he wasn't forced to come, McCarthy said through a court video feed. What he's doing is he doesn't want to face us, the family. There is no closure but there is justice."
"McCarthy, following other family members and longtime friends who gave victim statements at the December hearing, was unsparing in excoriating Garner, emphasizing how diminutive and defenseless Mykkanen was against a vicious July 2019 assault that authorities say entailed Garner slamming his mother's head into a wall. You're a disgusting human being, and I use human being' loosely, McCarthy said. You slaughtered you tortured the one person who loved you unconditionally."
Ryan Garner, 42, was sentenced to 25 years to life for murdering his 57-year-old mother, longtime San Jose schoolteacher Cynthia Mykkanen, in July 2019. Authorities say Garner, who had a history of assaulting the victim, brutally assaulted Mykkanen, slamming her head into a wall, then took her to an emergency room and purported that a nonexistent boyfriend had attacked her. Garner refused to be transported to the sentencing hearing. Family members delivered victim impact statements describing Mykkanen as diminutive and defenseless and criticizing Garner's apparent lack of remorse. Garner will receive credit for six and a half years served and could be eligible for parole around 2041.
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