{"id":281183,"date":"2026-04-23T00:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281183\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:58:31","slug":"california-appeals-court-upholds-murder-conviction-of-trezell-and-jacqueline-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281183\/","title":{"rendered":"California appeals court upholds murder conviction of Trezell and Jacqueline West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 More than four years after <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Orrin+and+Orson+West\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orrin and Orson West<\/a> disappeared, a California appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of their adoptive parents, <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Trezell%20and%20Jacqueline%20West\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trezell and Jacqueline West<\/a>, while ordering the case sent back for re-sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>The case centers on the disappearance of the two young boys, who were last seen in 2020 while living with their adoptive parents, Jacqueline and Trezell West.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/trezell-and-jacqueline-west-sentenced-for-death-of-orrin-and-orson-west-orrin-and-orson-west-deaths-kern-county-bakersfield-california-city-kern-county-superior-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trezell and Jacqueline West sentenced in connection to deaths of Orrin and Orson West<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orrin and Orson West (Photo: KBAK)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7b8e761b-99d8-4987-b2ca-02d0c56c5626-large16x9_OrrinandOrsonWest.PNG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Orrin and Orson West (Photo: KBAK)<\/p>\n<p>A jury previously found the couple guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Orrin, along with child abuse and filing a false police report. Last week, the Court of Appeals ruled there was enough evidence to support the second-degree murder conviction.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court threw out a separate manslaughter conviction, saying it overlapped with the murder charge, and ordered the case returned for re-sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s bodies have never been found.<\/p>\n<p>In Sept. 2023, Trezell West was sentenced to 15 years to life, plus 4 years, and Jacqueline West was sentenced to 15 years to life, plus 4 years. <\/p>\n<p>They were both found guilty of five of the seven counts in connection to the deaths of Orrin and Orson West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 More than four years after Orrin and Orson West disappeared, a California appeals court has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-281183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}