LOS ANGELES : Ex-Funeral Home Owners Convicted of Selling Organs
A couple who used to run a Pasadena funeral home were convicted Tuesday of conspiring to remove body parts from the corpses they handled and selling the organs to a tissue bank.
The three convictions returned by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury bring the total number of guilty verdicts against Jerry and Laurieanne Lamb Sconce to 11, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Robert Nishinaka.
But the former owners of the now-defunct Lamb Funeral Home were acquitted Tuesday on 11 counts of removing body parts without consent.
The jury, which returned some verdicts last week, was expected to continue deliberating on about a dozen remaining counts against the couple.
Jerry Sconce, 60, faces a maximum three-year, eight-month prison term for the convictions against him so far. Laurieanne Lamb Sconce, 57, faces a maximum six-year term for the convictions against her.
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