>> emily: we are awaiting the imminent sentencing of illegal immigrant jose ibarra after he was found guilty of murdering georgia student laken riley. the judge found ibarra guilty on all ten charges. we are expecting to hear his sentence at 12:30. we will bring that to you live. hello, everyone. this is "outnumbered." i'm emily compagno here with my cohosts, kayleigh mcenany and harris faulkner. also joining us today, kennedy, host of "kennedy saves the world," and ian prior, author of "parents of the world unite," litigation attorney, senior advisor at america first legal, and former justice department deputy director of affairs. remember, ibarra is just 1 of millions of migrants who have flooded into our country under the biden administration. but as president-elect trump

prepares for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants like jose ibarra, los angeles is digging in its heels. the city council just passed sanctuary city ordinance by unanimous vote. the law forbidding city employees and resources from being involved in federal immigration enforcement. watch. >> if we know anything about the person who just won the election, we know that their bark is their bark, and their bark matches their bite. >> given the reelection of donald trump and the consistent hate speech toward undocumented people and mixed status families, i can't think of a more pressing issue than this one today. >> emily: will come the holier-than-thou los angeles city council joins a growing list of democratic state and lol officials vowing to resist the trump administration. incoming border czar tom homan issued this morning on "fox & friends."

>> if they don't want to help us, get the hell out of our way. if they don't give us access to the jail, that would mean less agents for the community. for them pushing back and not letting is in the jails just means more agents are going to be in the community, so they're hurting themselves. finally i will say this. they need to educate themselves and review this. title 8 of the united states code, read about that and don't cross that line, because it is a felony to harbor and conceal an illegal alien from i.c.e. read the statute, don't cross that line. >> emily: gosh, it is so refreshing, kennedy, to have someone who knows the law committed to enforcing it. you live in los angeles. if i remember correctly, that was the same city council caught in a horrifically embarrassing and really gross operation where they revealed just actually how racist they were. >> kennedy: several members caught on camera with open mics making some disparaging comments. they certainly have their issues

in this arena. los angeles is what it is. southern california is what it is because of the immigrant community. no one is disputing that. no one wants to turn on their neighbors and have them deported. my daughter's best friends dad was deported when she was in first grade, and it was really traumatic for their family. but you have to realize the good people who came here did so because kamala harris and joe biden through the doors open. they didn't do it with pickaxes breaking into people's houses. but the difference is, the reason people voted the way they did, part of it is immigration, because the system has broken down because people like jose ibarra were allowed into the country with the good people, which means the federal government failed at venting, and now you are left with the consequences. you can't ignore them because you are vilifying donald trump. creating these immigration extremes where it's like, we are the touchy-feely, amazing, super

good, well-intentioned sanctuary city people, versus hitler. people voted somewhere in the middle, and you have to acknowledge that. when you have people like the mayor of boston saying, "i'm protecting everyone," no, what you are protecting our violent felons who wish to do as much harm as possible and not the people who your actual constituents. that's what they have to honor and that's where we have to have the conversation, which they are refusing to have, to their own detriment. >> emily: ian, a u.s. official has been telling fox that 1.4 million illegal immigrants currently have final orders of removal, and yet only 13,000 are in federal i.c.e. custody. to kennedy's point, the system is so overwrought, it has been so damaged from the get-go because of the lack of resources, the lack of acknowledgment this crisis. so in the candidates four years ago that kamala harris said, i'm coming to fix the immigration

system, that system has been obliterated of all common sense and all enforcement in this current administration. >> ian: that's right. you look at two things putting strains on the system, which is an understatement, one, the border. two, sanctuary cities. what you have our governors and mayors that didn't read the memo that there was an election, and most of the blue states actually started going more right if you look at the data. they didn't read the memo. so now they've messed around for years and they are about to enter the "find out" phase. when i was at the department of justice in the first trump administration, what we focus on was taking back grants for the century cities. but tom homan brings up a great point, which is, if you harbor illegal aliens, if you transport illegal aliens into this country, you can be prosecuted for a felony. a question i have for those governors and mayors, how many more laken rileys do you need to have before you get on it? clearly the incoming trump a

administration has sent the message, none. >> emily: in the lives lost, the list is so long, those lives are irretrievable. this damage has been generationally impacted forever, these families, and it these people are virtue signaling. >> harris: i want to get back to something you just said, the accountability, the way the law is fashion now. how many more laken rileys and other young victims in our country does it take to get the justice department to stand up and maybe go after some of those governors and sanctuary city leaders for aiding and abetting? does the law apply to everybody? because if you are harboring a criminal and you know he or she is a criminal and you know they came from either some gang in venezuela, like the brother of jose ibarra, and then it is talked about, how do you live with a gang member and not be one? blah, blah, blah. when do we go after the people who now want to thwart a system that would kick them out? they didn't do that to barack obama when he was going

after the criminal illegal aliens in this country. of course, democrats are upset with him. he got nicknamed the deported-in-chief. trump is going to be more efficient and faster at it. if there is a governor or city leader in a blue city or wherever in america pushing against the effort to protect american citizens from people that we know came here illegally and have broken our laws, and will kill, what do be do with those people? i don't care what office they hold. they are aiding and abetting. >> emily: kayleigh, that is tom homan's point. exactly, san jose nla. not anymore, not under my watch. to kennedy's initial point, that is what the american people want. she then they say thank you, tom homan, not thank you, l.a. city council. >> kayleigh: let me ask a question that is the converse of what ian was asking. who is the next jose ibarra? who is the next monster on the loose and why don't sanctuary cities care to stop that mon

monster? they say, i will defy federal law that makes it illegal to cross into the country, at a time when we know tren de aragua is all across the country, by the way. this isn't just one died. they are all over the country. i want to go to the numbers he put it. 13,000 in i.c.e. custody. 1.4 million with final notices. i just said some handy little on my phone -- i still or member how to do basic math from high school, and i found a percentage. that means 0.009% of individuals with final notices are in federal custody. what an abysmal number. and trump stood up in wilmington, north carolina, and said, i want congress to pass legislation to ban sanctuary cities. i want to surge federal law enforcement into all 50 states. i want that to happen. i hope mike johnson and trump have a plan. the first hundred days, let's ban century cities. we have to stop these guys. and that l.a. official who wants to call trump hate speech, it is hate speech to say let's get rid of jose ibarra?

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>> kayleigh: president-elect trump's attorneys are demanding an immediate dismissal of his new york conviction. they argue the american people's choice to elect him to a second term "supersedes manhattan district attorney alvin bragg's political motivations." that is in response to d.a.

bragg trying to keep the case alive, even if it means delaying sentencing until 2029 when trump leaves office, just hanging over his head. judge merchan is currently weighing whether to toss the 34-count conviction against president-elect trump for falsifying business records in the wake of his white house win. d.a. bragg is not backing down. bragg was asked about the filing this morning by one of our fox producers. it went like this. >> do you want a sentence to be rendered before inauguration, or would you rather it come after his term? and is trump about the law? >> i'm not going to go beyond what we filed in court yesterday, although i think your answer may be in our letter, what we said in our letter. we have significant competing constitutional issues. the office of the presidency and the obligations that come with

that, on the one hand, and the other hand, the sanctity of a jury that has spoken and rendered a guilty verdict. we frame the issue for the co court. >> kayleigh: allow me to translate. jonathan turley said it best. he said that what bragg is wanting is to put a leash on the sitting president for four years. emily, jonathan turley said this -- many democrats want to be to govern with an asterisk of a pending sentencing. instead, trump would govern with a clock ticking toward a sentencing date. it's a dangerous precedent. such pending sentences can have a coercive impact on a president in dealing with officials including a state governor. that is exactly right. >> emily: that is why one of the defense attorneys argued in the motion, this would be uniquely destabilizing. i think that is something for viewers to keep in mind, that the situation is wholly unprecedented for a million reasons and has now crossed the threshold into something where it is difficult, i think, to shove the analysis into a clean

box and simply say, look, this is the president-elect we are talking about. you have tried to weaponize the use of lawfare to your benefit, alvin bragg, and tried to seize on a self-slapped label of a convicted felon, but the reality is now that he is the president-elect, and your unfounded initial charges need to somehow be rectified, and believe me, the dealing with this would be unconstitutional, and would hamstring the president's ability to govern effectively. and this affects every single constituent in the united states of america. hopefully, as well, federal government, and that would supersede anything this town dna tries to bring before it. >> kayleigh: in bragg's request he keeps using the term "the people." the people want this, the people are opposing the motion. i get it, that is legal jargon that all d.a.s use, but here it rings a little to family. let's bring up the monmou

monmouth poll. it's politically motivated and this is nothing to say if he had popular vote count donald trump got. >> harris: 100% of those who voted for trump excite his vision to be carried out. they want the country to be safer and they want him to be focused. todd blanche, upper deputy attorney general, that is who the president would like to see get that job. he's now the nominee. he said this. this calls for immediate dismissal of the case mandated by the federal constitution. in the interest of justice and in order to facilitate the orderly transition of executive power following president trump's overwhelming victory in the 2024 presidential election. look, i have one civil question. if it's really about the people, can individual citizens sue for the president to be able to do his job? who did they take their personal cases to? you might find some voters out there who have enough grievance to follow that case and then maybe it gets raised in the u.s. supreme court. it is that kind of an issue now.

if you're going to thwart the will of the people, can the people make a case? >> kayleigh: to that end, and speaking of the supreme court, let's bring in the list of the great one also known as mike levin. >> this up in court needs to step in pay what happened to bush versus gore in 2000? the bush lawyer said we have an out of control florida supreme court allowing the counting and counting of ballots until gore wins. we need to put an end to this. to me president trump lawyers depending on what he does, although i would do it now, take this president of bush versus gore. you have an overwhelming case of a violation of the federal constitution, federal law, and overwhelming case of violation of the supreme court immunity ruling, an overwhelming case of a violation of the depravity of justice policy for half a century, and say to the supreme court, "court, you're the only ones who can help us here. help our constitution." >> kayleigh: and he says the court should be champing at the

bit to take this. there are some much reversible error here. >> ian: not only is there reversible error, but when i look at alvin bragg, i see somebody who's realized he is in checkmate. if he dismisses this case, he is telling everybody including the incoming administration and department of justice, yes, this was politically motivated. which i would argue is a violation of 18 usc 241, conspiracy against rights. he continues with this, he is showing everybody that he is essentially trying to impede the president from fulfilling his duties, which still would be a violation of conspiracy against rights. it also would be a violation of 42 usc 1985, a civil statute. so this man right now has realized the jig is up, and what he does from here, i think the judge might say i'm going to dismiss this case so i can get out of this and not be part of whatever comes next, because they think alvin bragg is in big trouble. >> kayleigh: he should have done it already. merchan should have dismiss this the day after the election.

he chose not to. in the immunity ruling from the supreme court, it came after the conviction, and his conviction relied on white house testimony that came up and closing arguments. >> kennedy: well, he's also the president of the united states, former and future, and i think that has massive bearing on this case. what i would like to see from alvin bragg is a little bit of i want him to be making sure that he is meticulously going through all of the financial filing records of anyone in new york who might ever think about running for president, and make sure that they don't have any fraudulent statements on their past financial filings, because if they do they should be tried. they should be charged, they should be tried, and they should absolutely, if this is precedent, be convicted. because we could have thousands of frauds who want to be president running around the city. that is much more dangerous than a madman with a knife going throughout the borough killing

people. while he's at it, i want to make sure he's targeting people to use any sort of filtered photos on dating apps, because they are also making fraudulent filings and making claims about themselves that are not true, and people are making dating decisions, life or death dating decisions, based on information which is wholly inaccurate. and that is the basis of this case. [laughter] >> harris: i feel like you just delved into something personal to people. >> kayleigh: i think so, that you have a point. bragg is going to go after the single men and women of new york on dating apps before he goes after criminals. bill clinton called that democrats were trying to convince you the american people that the economy is so great. his postelection warning, next. ♪ ♪ if you're a veteran wife, homeowner, and the family bookkeeper, you're the first to know when high rate debt is stressing your budget.

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>> harris: former president bill clinton is giving his fellow democrats a harsh reality check. clinton says the economy is not in a great place, and democrats need to stop claiming otherwise. >> i would say two things. i would say we can't keep asserting that things are great in the economy. in some senses, they are great, but first of all, we are saddled with some with some cost-of-living challenges which are not unique to the united states, but it is pretty hard if you are not there in the middle of the country and you're working hard and you got two or three kids and you have to watch every penny you make. secondly, the economic benefits of the current recovery have been widely shared. >> harris: before you get too excited about that, mansplaining the truth and anything else, while campaigning for

kamala harris, he admitted the economy was bad but to vote for kamala harris anyway. let's watch. >> i don't think it's right to say that people have to vote for donald trump because the economy is better then. >> harris: those are some political games on the left right now. they don't have the tape of what they said 15 days ago. >> kayleigh: what does get out the vote look like, are the republicans up to par? they have this great tv. a dad said to me that they get out the vote is inflation. it turned out to be 100% correct. that was the tail end that sent people to the polls. there was a great debate playing out in the democratic party all the way back to the state of the evening with biden. he was saying inflation is coming down, jobs are going up, the economy is great. and political advisors are telling him, please do not say that, mr. president. kamala rides in on her big golden horse and says, i get it, prices are too high.

let's go after price gouging. i did not work. what are they going to say when donald trump creates a roaring economy? are they then going to try to tell us the economy is bad? there is this whiplash and it's just cognitive dissonance for america. >> harris: what are they going to say when have to fix inflation again because it kicked up two fridays ago after the election? they were lying. they were lying to the american public that things are going to get better under kamala harris. >> emily: that's right. what makes this so easy to see now, as well, the american people voted quite clearly with common sense. so this wasn't sort of a nuanced, we have different approaches to this economic system. there was one side that was clearly the large majority of america that said, we are sick of inflation and here's exactly how we can address it, eliminating regulations, fostering entrepreneurship, not saddling the heavy federal

bloat, wasting our tax dollars through waste and fraud and abuse. the answers were clear. for the american people to be told, don't believe your pocketbooks, to believe the stress you have at the grocery store or with your families, your shrinking 401(k) and the like, and listen to me as we change our minds and flip-flop. no, bill clinton is just talking common sense, and that is what everyone had and hopes we can now get back to thanks to president-elect donald trump. >> harris: but when the election was on the line, he was willing to lie about it. everybody saw that for themselves. >> kennedy: that's how he was a two-term president. if there's one thing he knows how to do it is to lie. >> harris: he had a good economy, bill clinton. >> kennedy: it doesn't matter if she has certain metrics working well for certain people or that are good by comparison to countries in western europe. that doesn't matter. if you can't afford things. and that is what she didn't appropriate acknowledge. she would shift a little bit here and there, in rallies ended

speeches she would say things have gotten really expensive the last three years, huh? and you are vice president. your number two in this administration. it was your bad post-covert policy that created this environment, and we are the ones who have to live with it. the people who can't afford to live with it anymore, they are the ones who voted them out of office. this is not the first time. he had a same advice for hillary clinton in 2016. his wife. and she wouldn't take his advice. i think he's the greatest politician ever? no, but he knows how to lie to get elected. she was not smart enough to talk yourself out of a paper bag full of skeptics. >> harris: and now bill clinton tells the truth about how bad it is in the whole democrats have to dig themselves out of come and get ready in two years to fight for at least one chamber of congress if they could do that. >> kennedy: you can have an '90s playbook to do that, though, and that's what they are still operating with. >> harris: ian, when you look

at the total picture here, the infrastructure of the argument still for democrats is to catch up. they are catching up to what americans were all already feeling, how to turn things aro, and how it is not in their hands, and they still want you to believe they can do it, but in this higher inflation rates come out from two fridays ago, and last i checked, biden and harris are still in office. if they were going to fix it, fix it now. >> ian: their policies don't allow them to fix it. their policies are the reason why we are here. i will say, on clinton, you can say what you want about clinton, he was a savvy politician in his prime. i've got this visual that bill clinton has been in solitary confinement at the dnc and every once in a while they will let him out to go talk, and then he will say something that is not quite on message and they put him back in. i think he escaped. "i'm done with these people. i don't want my legacy as a savvy politician to go down with

kamala harris in this version of the democrat party, so i'm going to actually go tell the truth for once." >> harris: and somebody really understood the power of the economy and the power of the vote and how connected those things are. "i feel your pain," bill clinton. he got it and he realizes, if they don't get it this time, they'll continue to lose. it really is insidious. >> ian: they just haven't learned the lesson from the election. sure, there are occasional democrats out there, like seth moulton will come out and say something and of course he'll get canceled, but by and large, democrats have not learned what this election was about. >> harris: seth moulton talking now against transgender in sports, or whatever he is spewing, although he voted for the bill of rights for transgender in his states. so much duplicity pray let's move on. nancy pelosi is all over the news over her relatives' appointed positions. could the gig be on the chopping block?

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>> harris: breaking news, the mother of laken riley is in court in athens, georgia, giving her impact statement after the man come the monster you see on screen, killed laken riley. let's watch. >> he ripped away every beautiful memory we will ever e able to make with her again. this horrific individual robbed us all of our hopes and dreams

for laken. your honor, i am asking you to please give jose ibarra the same thing he gave us when he made the choice to take laken's life and destroy ours. he showed no mercy on laken when she was begging for her life. there's no end to the pain and suffering that he inflicted on her family and her friends. i'm asking you to please give this monster life without any chance of parole, so that he never gets the chance to hurt anyone else over again. >> i would like to thank your honor for the opportunity to speak today. i truly appreciate it.

you heard in the opening statements from the defense that the loss of a life that was apparently full of promise is tragic. i'm here today to let your honor and the entire world know that laken's life was not apparently full of promise, but instead was abundantly and exceptionally full of promise. it was a shining beacon in the life of everyone that knew her or that ever came in contact with her. i am so proud of laken and the beautiful person she was, and while i can stand here and try to tell the world the things that made her such a wonderful person, as well as the many things we have all been robbed and deprived of, i think one of her last journal entries dated 12/17/23 says it best.

here we go. "to my future husband, as silly as i feel writing this, my leader recommended it, so here i am. to my future husband, i want you to know that i'm thinking about you, and i'm working every day to become the best wife i can be by working through my current relationship that best prepare me for hours and our kids one day. i am focusing on god and what he defines as a faithful christian life, so i can best embody those characteristics. i pray that you know he is with my full faith and trust in god that i know this relationship has been handcrafted by him, and i pray that we continue to glorify the lord, prioritizing him in every aspect of our lives, and raise

our family, our future family, d fearing, as well. god is the center of our relationship, as it is a gift from him. i thank him for you before i even know you, and i can't wait to love you and the best way i know how for the rest of our lives. i pray you know and feel the importance of my loves and hopes for our relationship, no matter what challenges we face. i pray that our trust in god and love for one another overrules the obstacle. may our relationship last forever. your future wife, laken." that, your honor, was our beautiful laken. that, your honor, is just a glimpse of what was tragically and brutally taken from her and us that day.

the best daughter, sister, granddaughter, friend, and overall person that you could ever hope to meet. it's true that none of our lives will ever be the same. we refused to let this person robbed laken of the hope she gave to her family, loved ones, friends, and the world as a whole. we will probably carry this hope and honor her name in the days ahead and for the rest of our lives, because together we can all keep hope alive. so today i plead with this court to protect the world from this truly evil person by sentencing him to prison for life without the possibility of parole for any reason, so that he can never have the opportunity to do this to anyone else ever again. thank you, your honor. >> harris: john phillips, the stepdad of laken riley, and her mother, asking the judge to show

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>> harris: breaking news. i want to take you back to the courtroom in athens, georgia, now. laken riley sister, lauren, is speaking. these are impact statements just ahead of a anticipated sentencing by this judge. let's watch. >> i realize i'll never get any peace or closure. what jose ibarra did to my sister is almost unbearable to listen to. i am completely disgusted having to even look and be in the same room as him. that predator is inhumane and is the epitome of evil. i have no doubt in my mind that the monster sitting in this room with us today is the same monster that encountered my precious sister on february 22nd, 2024, where he proceeded to attack, assault, beets, murder, and attempt to

rape her. jose antonio ibarra has completely and utterly ruined my life, and i can only hope and pray that he receives a sentence that ruins his. thank you. >> your honor, i stand here today as a grieving father whose heart was shattered in ways i never thought possible. my daughter, laken riley, was not just our child, she was the light of my life, the person who brought joy to every room she entered. now that life has been extinguished forever, taking us from the most senseless and violently imaginable.

the pain i feel is unplayable. every day i am reminded that my daughter is gone. i will never hear her laugh again, never see her smile, never hold her hand or feel her hug. she was taken from us, from her family, from her friends, from her future. our world has been torn apart, and a matter what happens here today, nothing will ever bring her back. i am haunted by the thought of this he or she must have felt in those final moments, and it breaks my heart knowing that she suffered. i have to live with the fact that i could not protect her when she needed me the most. the pain of not being there, of not being able to stop what happened to her, is something i will never escape. my daughter had so many dreams, so many hopes for the future. she had worked so hard to become a nurse, to work with children

and spread the love of god. she was a loving, kind, and intelligent young woman. she had so much to offer the world, and her life was taken from her far too soon. i will never get to see her achieve those dreams. the void that has been left is immeasurable. the impact of her loss on our family is immeasurable. as a father, i am forever burdened with the pain of losing my child. i will spend the rest of my life trying to navigate this grief, trying to make sense of the world that took my daughter from our family. but i will never forget her. i will keep her memory alive, and...

i hope justice is served for her, not only because i'm her father, but because she deserves it. i ask that you consider this life that was taken, the pain that has been caused, and the lasting effects of this tragedy on everyone who loved our amazing daughter, laken help hoe riley. thank you. >> [inaudible] >> good afternoon. as i stated in my testimony, laken riley was my roommate for two years, my devoted and loyal running partner for two years, and my best friend forever. i stand before you looking at you through eyes that have seen, ears that have heard, and a heart that has felt emotions and

nobody and especially no 22-year-old should have to. on february 21st, my life was complete. i woke up on for breach 21st at 7:30 a.m., walked out of my bedroom door to streamers hung outside my bedroom from the top of my door frame to the floor, balloons blown, decorations tapes, and gives on the kitchen island. laken did it. it was my 22nd birthday. she had a 5:00 p.m. nursing clinical, yet she woke up at 4:30 a.m. to make me feel lovede that is who laken riley was. i went to dinner that night with my roommates and my family and ended the night with my roommates and especially laken showering me with love. it is clear and evident that this defendant, jose ibarra, has never felt this type of love and appreciation. i have been impacted by this brutal cowardice and preventable

tragedy in every way, shape, and form. i no longer have a best friend that i relay every thought or worry too. i no longer run every day. i lost my partner and i've lost the joy of what running was the floor laken taken from us. i cannot imagine running when i constantly am looking over my shoulder in public, wondering if i am next. i live with excruciating guilt every day that i was not accompanying laken on this run, and that it was her and not me. and i hope and pray that it will never happen again to anyone. along with this, the crime this monster committed ruined one of the most special places in our friendship. the lake was laken and i 'a safe space. we loved going on running adventures throughout the park together. we had a code consisting of either ending our runs are

taking a calming walk to the dock. we would sit in silence, play music or talk while sitting on the dock, simply enjoying each other's presence. all it took was a text saying "i need dock time," and we were on the way to debrief whatever we needed to discuss. now when i think of this beautiful spock i think of the terror and horror my sweet best friend had to endure at the hands of this monster. i think of all the things i had to do to remember laken. at times i forget how she laughs her how she sound, and i have to look through my camera roll of of videos i have, where i talk to my future kids and introduce them to their aunt laken in college. i have to drive to her grave and sit and talk to her with no response, screaming at the sky. when i want to remember her, i have to go to my closet and pull at clothes i was given and smelled them to remember how she smelled. as i stand here today i am

wearing one of laken's shirts. this shirt has sat in my closet for months, not because i'm saving it for an occasion, but because i cannot afford to not remember things like this about her. i sit in therapy week after week trying to heal february 22nd and life after. when i hear emergency vehicle sirens, and triggered. i sat that day and watched a dozens of emergency personnel drive by as i sat helpless. my roommates and i have to draw our own conclusions, but the pinnacle of our house is no longer here, after sitting in the fields for two hours with no answers. our fears were confirmed when we received a university-wide email that eluded students, faculty, and staff that a female is deceased. i lost faith in humanity the day that my kind, selfless, beautiful, smart, and living best friend left this earth. i'll never understand why it had to happen in the first place,

but more importantly why, out of all people, it had to be her. the world lost a girl who take the clothes off her back for her family, friends, and even strangers, who studied and devoted her life to christ and nursing so she could save lives and make a difference in this world. laken cannot be replaced. if we had the ability to bring her back, i would give up every earthly position i have to see her infectious smile, hear her laugh, and hug her neck. laken made this world and more specifically my worlds better. my first years of college when i did not know laken, i went home all the time. my last years of college, you had to drag me home. that was because laken was my person. your honor, i wish to proclaim the maximum sentence for the defendant, because i will never be the same. her loving, beautiful family will never be the same, and this world will never be the same. i hope this sentencing sets a precedent so it stops with laken and fails to happen to anyone again. laken was a hero and a warrior.

she died a hero and a warrior, and she is a hero and warrior to all of us. laken was my source of light, joy, and unwavering happiness, so in her life was taken, so is the part of me who knew how to truly feel those things again. thank you, your honor. >> [inaudible] >> your honor, my name is lily steiner. as mentioned in my testimony, iy steiner and i mentioned my testimony i was one of laken's friends and family. on the day if every 27th, 2024, laken riley was taken by jose ibarra from her family, her roommates, her friends, her sorority sisters, her classmates, her future children, her future husband, and her future patients. this trial focused on the death of laken, which has overshadowed the life that she lived. the life that was stolen from this community. laken was the most driven student with the biggest heart of anyone i think they ever will

meet. as roommates, we got to spend a whole lot of time together. we had our family dinners that were strictly chilly. we watch "dancing with the stars" every tuesday. we had almost daily starbucks runs, which i hoped to do that morning when i checked her location around the time she took her final breaths. we'd often get to a point at least once a week where we get emotional thinking about what life was going to be like once we graduated. laken held a place in all of our imaginary futures. now sophia, connolly, and i graduated in may, required to move on with our lives, while laken can't. we have the privilege to get jobs and move to an exciting new city to experience postgrad life, but laken doesn't. i'm currently working as a medical assistant, waking up every day dreading that i will get a text from her to get my day better. i'm striving to work in the medical field, but i know i could never be half the health care worker that laken would have been and that the

world was deprived of. while living together, we often would play outside of our house in the middle of the street, specifically foursquare. listening to a playlist i made called "play time with my family." our home was such a special place to us. one that was tainted. as never been the same, nor will it ever be. shortly after laken's death, i had to come back to you ga to finish my classes without laken and without the safe space that we built together, and it was awful. every time i wanted to go somewhere, i had to drive by the apartment that provided a roof over his head while he got to rip away hours. [sobbing] life without laken has been so dull. having to learn how to navigate time without her, the grief, anger, and fear has been beyond difficult. so many people are lost without her. laken made her short tim