Relatives of 1998 murder victim Terry Cheek — and of defendant Googie Harris Jr. — spoke at Harris’ sentencing.
Googie Rene Harris Jr., sitting next to attorney Karen Lockhart, wipes a tear as he listens to victim impact statements on Sept. 26, 2024, in Superior Court in Riverside. Harris was sentenced to about eight months in jail after his conviction for accessory to a felony for his role in the murder of his stepmother, Terry Cheek, in 1998 in Jurupa Valley.
Anthony Cheek, brother of murder victim Terry Cheek, pauses during his victim impact statement as Riverside County Managing Deputy District Attorney Will Robinson listens in Superior Court in Riverside on Sept. 26, 2024. Googie Rene Harris Jr. was sentenced to about eight months in jail after his conviction for accessory to a felony. He helped dump the body of his stepmother in Corona after she was slain in Jurupa Valley in 1998.
The sentence is about 20 years less than Temecula resident Horace Roberts Jr. served in prison after he was erroneously convicted of killing his lover, Terry Cheek of Jurupa Valley.in 2018 when improved technology determined that DNA found on and near Cheek’s body belonged to her husband, Googie Rene Harris Sr., his nephew,
Leal and Harris Jr. then loaded her body in a pickup belonging to Roberts — with whom she was having an affair and whose pickup she had borrowed on that day — and drove her to Lee Lake near Corona and dumped her body on the rocks, Harris Jr. testified. The men left Roberts’ truck about a mile away on the shoulder of the 15 Freeway.
The only sound in the near-empty courtroom other than those voices was the tick-tock of the second hand on the circular clock.
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