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Guyanese gets life sentence without parole in the US
Jurors handed Mohamed Kamaludeen a life sentence without the possibility of parole on Thursday last after hearing testimony from Judy Calder’s family and a Canadian inspector investigating a 1993 stabbing that Kamaludeen was allegedly involved in.
Kamaludeen was convicted Wednesday of murdering University of Nevada-Reno professor Judy Calder on Aug. 18, 2007 and soliciting someone else to murder her in 2006.
Mohamed Kamaludeen received a life sentence without the possibility of parole
Kamaludeen owed Calder more than US$150,000 and stabbed her four or five times in the chest. He then dumped her body off Highway 93 near Wells, Nevada, with the help of an accomplice, Carlos Filomeno. Filomeno testified against Kamaludeen in the murder trial.
Kamaludeen is also wanted in Canada for the stabbing death of a garage owner for a ring, necklace and cash. The Canadian inspector said Kamaludeen coerced a 17-year-old boy into murdering the man and that he told the boy to cut the ring off his hand.
In the Calder murder trial, Washoe County District Court Judge Patrick Flanagan set the sentencing for Kamaludeen’s solicitation of murder charge and the two enhancements on his murder charge for Dec. 10.
Kim Calder, Judy Calder’s daughter, said the sentencing “in a sense makes us better able to go on.”
She told the jury during sentencing that Kamaludeen took advantage of her mother’s trust. Sniffles reverberated through the audience and jury as Kim Calder continued to speak, her voice trembling when recalling her mother.
“She believed in people,” she said. “He used this very kindness to take advantage of her.”
It is nice not to have something hanging over our heads, like the trial,” Carolyn Conger, Calder’s sister, said.
Conger told jurors she had to receive a pacemaker shortly after the loss of Calder.
“This time has been so devastating, the stress so great, my heart has actually stopped working,” she said.
Kamaludeen said he forced the British embassy, which handles citizens of Kamaludeen’s native Guyana, to extradite him to the U.S. for the trial.
He maintained that he did not kill Calder. While addressing the jury, he kept his eyes locked on an empty witness box.
Reno police Detective David Fogarty said Kamaludeen lied to the jury. Kamaludeen planned to travel to Brazil and then walk to his home country of Guyana, he said. Kamaludeen tried to flee when he realised authorities wanted to capture him for extradition, he said.
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