It goes without saying this crime involved great violence, it involved a firearm, it involved all the vulnerable victims who, again, had no time to react, no time to defend themselves. It involved planning. I don't think you could say it was sophistication or professionalism, but it certainly involved planning.
When you load a gun, arm yourself with a gun. Drive 10 or 15 minutes to an apartment complex. As we saw on video, his demeanor going up the elevator, his demeanor going down the elevator, that showed planning.
And obviously he took advantage of a position of trust. Clearly. that she didn't know he had a key, but he took advantage of that.
Now, there are certain factors that, as for mitigating factors under the rules of court, I don't find any. Zero. None.
There are certain factors with the defendant that I am obligated to take a look at. I acknowledge he has no prior record. I acknowledge the fact that at the time of this killing, he was suffering substance abuse and had certain, some mental health issues.
But I... reject the fact that his childhood contributed to this at all. That was, I hear terrible childhoods day in and day out and his was not ideal but it wasn't what we hear in this particular court.
And I don't think that any of these crimes were connected, in fact, to his mental health or as even a substance abuse. He was over 26. It did involve intimate partner violence, but he was the one that was committing the violence on her. And of course he denied when confronted with it what happened initially. So the court is not going to strike or reduce the gun enhancements.
The question then becomes one of whether or not... These life without possibility of parole should be consecutive or concurrent, and that's a big deal. That will, in all likelihood, determine whether or not he dies in prison or out of prison, whether he dies a free man or one who's not. And this is... the bottom line on this is I've watched him here during all of this time.
He's a very talented actor. He is a very talented actor. When I saw the Scarface videos, it's as if when he committed these crimes, he became that persona of Scarface, of just the cold-blooded killing without remorse.
Any tears that he's crying in this courtroom have been for himself. They are not for Ray and Anna. It's just that's the reality.
He fears the consequences as he should of his actions but as he sits here today I don't know if he's really sorry. I have serious reservations about it. I know he's sorry about the consequences of going to prison for the rest of his life but I can't say that I think he's sorry for having killed these two innocent human beings.
He's a very selfish person, as I think the jury saw. That was something that his character kind of came through, and we ask, who is Ali Aboulaban? That's who he is. He's somebody that is only thinking about himself, and the idea of killing two innocent people doesn't disturb him.
It's chilling. So the bottom line here is he will die in prison. He will never be a free man. He will take his last breath there.
Please, please, please. In this matter, the defendant on count one will be sentenced to life without the possibility of probation via Pinochle section 1190.2, parent A, parent 3. Consecutive to that will be... be 25 years to life on the gun enhancement under penal code section 1202.53 d consecutive to count one will be count two which will be life without the possibility of parole penal code section 190.2 parent a3 consecutive to that will be the gun enhancement of 25 to life under penal code section 1202.53 d total Total prison term, 50 years, two life, plus L-Lock. Life without the possibility of parole.