WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON SET. A SENTENCING YEARS IN THE MAKING. THE MAN ACCUSED OF PLAYING A ROLE IN THE DEATH OF A TEN YEAR OLD ALBUQUERQUE GIRL WILL SPEND MORE THAN 30 YEARS IN PRISON. I JUST SENTENCE FAVORITE GONZALEZ THIS MORNING ANCHOR SASHA LENNINGER WAS THERE AND SHE JOINS US LIVE NOW FROM DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE. SASHA, DON’T LEON RUN IT 37 AND A HALF YEARS. THAT’S A LONG FEE. BEING A DA IS SPENDING IN PRISON FOR HIS ROLE IN THE DEATH OF VICTORIA MARTENS BACK IN 2016. THE MAXIMUM THOUGH HE WAS FACING WAS 40 AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON. THE STATE AND DEFENSE PLEADING THEIR CASE ONE LAST TIME. A JUDGE IN NEW LAGOS BEFORE HER RULING, FABIAN GONZALEZ, IN AN ORANGE JUMPSUIT, APPEARING IN COURT ONE LAST TIME, LEARNING HIS FATE AFTER A JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY ON NINE COUNTS, INCLUDING RECKLESS CHILD ABUSE AND TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE. IF IT WERE NOT FOR MR. GONZALEZ. THERE IS NO QUESTION IN MY MIND THAT VICTORIA MARTENS WOULD STILL BE ALIVE, HE WAS THE CONDUIT FOR HER DEATH. JUDGE CINDY LE’S HANDING HIM A 37 AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON. HE ENTERED INTO MICHELLE MARTIN’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF NOT ONLY HER LIFE, BUT THEN ENDED VICTORIA’S LIFE JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER, ON HER BIRTHDAY, THE STATE ARGUING GONZALEZ IS NO STRANGER TO CRIME AND VIOLENCE BEFORE AND AFTER THE DEATH OF VICTORIA. IN THIS CASE, WE SAW THE MANIPULATION OF MS. MARTIN’S. WE HEARD TESTIMONY ABOUT PHYSICAL USE OF MS.. MILLER, AND WE SAW SOME THREATS TO MS. AREA. IN THIS CASE, THE DEFENDANT SORT OF COMING INTO HIS VERSIONS APARTMENT AND CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE OF WHAT VICTORIA’S HOME MIGHT LOOK LIKE. A VICTORIA’S GRANDFATHER PLEADING TO THE JUDGE VIA ZOOM TO GIVE THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE TO GONZALEZ FABIAN BECAUSE OF YOU PARTICIPATING IN THE DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT OF VICTORIA, WE NO LONGER WANT TO HEAR THE STATE OFFER. I LOVE YOU, NANNA. I LOVE YOU. THE DEFENSE, THOUGH, ARGUING GONZALEZ IS NOT GUILTY IF HE SAYS HE’S SORRY FOR VICTORIA, NO ONE WILL BELIEVE IT. BUT HE IS AND HAS BEEN SINCE THIS EVENT HAPPENED. THIS MAN IS GOING TO GO TO PRISON. HE’S GOING TO GET A LOT OF TIME AND HE’S STILL MAINTAINS HE DIDN’T DO WHAT HE WAS ACCUSED OF. THE DEFENSE ALSO ARGUING GONZALEZ SHOULD HAVE ALMOST THREE YEARS KNOCKED OFF HIS SENTENCE FOR THE TIME HE HAD TO WEAR AN ANKLE MONITOR BEFORE HE WAS ARRESTED. THE JUDGE DENYING THAT, BUT COMBINING TWO TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE CHARGES INTO ONE, IT’S IMPORTANT TO, AS STALEY POINTED OUT, TO LOOK AT EACH COUNT OF TAMPERING AND SEE IF THEY ARE DISTINCT ACTS, IF THEY’RE NOT DISTINCT ACTS, THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE PUNISHMENT. NOW, INSIDE THAT COURTROOM TODAY WAS THE WIFE OF FABIAN GONZALEZ, AS WAS THE DETECTIVE WHO WAS THE LEAD DETECTIVE ON THE CASE AT THAT TIME, AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF THE JURY. ALSO INSIDE WAS A POLICE SERGEANT, A 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO SAID THIS WAS THE MOST VIOLENT AND GRUESOME CASE HE HAS EVER SEEN. LIVE IN DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE, I’M SOCIAL AND DRUG KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS. BACK TO YOU. FABIO GONZALEZ’S COUSIN, JESSICA KELLY TOOK A PLEA DEAL AND TESTIFIED DURING THIS TRIAL. SHE WAS SENTENCED TO 44 YEARS IN JAIL.