‘I wasn’t in my right mind’: Redmond man gets life in woman’s stabbing death
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'You took away my best friend,' victim's son tells Clinton Holland
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 62-year-old Redmond man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with at least 25 years before he can seek parole in the stabbing death last July of a 54-year-old woman he’d previously dated.
Clinton Kevin Holland fatally stabbed Nicole Gayle Jakubek after breaking into her home on Southeast 35th Street, then fled in her car. He was arrested on a DUII charge in Hood River County after crashing her car.
During Tuesday’s sentencing, Jakubek’s son, Marshall Beaudoin, told Holland: "You took away my best friend. I would talk to my mom multiple times a day, and you took that away from me.
"The only reason I can think as to why you did that is because you're institutionalized, and you wanted to go home. So now you get what you want, and you get to go home -- and I get to live every day without my best friend."
Defense attorney Shawn Kollie said Holland used methamphetamine constantly, with alcoholism and depression as other factors. He said Holland still doesn't remember killing Jakubek, but accepts that he did so.
When given a chance to speak, Holland told the judge: “I was high on drugs and alcohol. … I wasn’t in my right mind. I loved her.” But he added, “I know I did that. I apologize for it. That’s it.”
Deschutes County Circuit Judge Raymond Crutchley told Holland, “What you have done is, quite frankly, horrendous. … You are what you do. You brutally took her life. You are a murderer, because that’s what you did.”
Crutchley ordered Holland to have no contact with the victim’s family and to pay $2,500 restitution. He had avoided trial by signing a guilty-plea petition in January.
After the sentencing, Beaudoin told NewsChannel 21, "My mom was easily manipulated by people like him.”
"She was finally getting to the point where she was standing up for herself and saying 'no,’” Beaudoin said, but “he (Holland) was the kind of person who couldn’t stand 'no.'"
"He was a con man. When he was told to leave, he acted out. And he wanted 100% to go back to prison -- at the cost of someone else's life he did not care about."
