"David Davis, I didn't know the man. He's dead now."
William Nesler, son of Ellie Nesler, has been sentenced:
A man whose vigilante mother gunned down his alleged boyhood molester in court 12 years ago was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in prison....
Willie Nesler, 23, was convicted last month of killing David Davis an hour after Nesler was released from jail last July for beating Davis on a previous occasion....
In a rambling statement after sentencing, Nesler told the judge: "I've done a lot of bad things in my life. ... But I feel I have been railroaded" by the justice system.
"David Davis, I didn't know the man," he added. "He's dead now. That's all I really have to say about him."
The verdict came in the same Tuolumne County courthouse where his mother, Ellie Nesler, was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting his alleged molester in a Jamestown courtroom in 1993....
She is currently serving six years in prison on a drug conviction....
More on William Nesler's statement, and some statements from his sister:
William "Willy" Nesler told a Tuolumne County Superior Court judge he was "railroaded" Monday shortly after being sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison for the murder last summer of a Sonora man.
The 23-year-old Nesler, thrust into the national spotlight 12 years ago when his mother, Ellie Nesler, fatally shot a man accused of molesting him at a church camp, made a short, disjointed address after Judge Eric Du Temple sentenced him for the fatal beating of David Davis, 45....
During his impromptu statement, he admitted doing "a lot of bad things in my life" but called his family "good people."
"My mother killed people in the courtroom for things she thought was wrong," he said....
William Nesler said Monday that his family members "don’t judge people and don’t expect to be judged." He then told Du Temple he felt "railroaded," hinting friends of Driver’s had something to do with the outcome....
After the hearing, [William's sister] Rebecca Nesler embraced Brown and told her she was sorry for what she had gone through — a gesture Brown and some of her family members found touching.
But she also defended her brother, saying he had poor legal representation and has been miscast as a "monster."
Rebecca Nesler said she recently visited [Ellie Nesler] in a Chowchilla prison, where she is being treated for cancer. She said their mother knew this was going to happen, and she urged her son to leave the county.
Rebecca Nesler also agreed her brother was "railroaded" and never had a chance at a fair trial in Tuolumne County, where the Nesler name is so well known.
"He told me, ‘Once they heard my name, they already found me guilty.’"
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