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Judge Accepts Guilty Plea In Pali Golf Course Slayings

Co-Defendants Given Similar Plea Deal With Timeline

POSTED: 2:06 pm HST September 26, 2008

Four years after two men were murdered at the Pali Golf Course, one of the killers has pleaded guilty.

The sentence will be no more than 27 and a half years.

Kevin "Pancho" Gonsalves was one of three gunmen who killed the victims in broad daylight in a fight over security for a gambling operation. A third victim survived.

Judge Susan Mollway resisted Gonsalves guilty plea until Friday. She agreed prosecutors have justified why a sentence less than life was appropriate.

Gonsalves' two co-defendants, Ethan Motta and Rodney Joseph Jr., have been offered the same plea agreement. They have a 48-hour deadline to accept it or go to trial.

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