Funeral Notices

Cynthia Margaret Beynon, 81, of Yuma, died Nov. 4, 2017, in Yuma.

Born Feb. 9, 1936, in Dearborn, Mich., she was an art shop business owner.

Mass will be 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.

Sunset Vista Funeral Home and Cemetery is handling arrangements, including private cremation. death in her own sweat. That’s what little regard PHOENIX — Prosecutors the defendant had for on Tuesday showed jurors Ame’s life.” a small plastic box where Defense attorney Robert a 10-year-old Arizona girl Reinhardt argued that Allen, was found dead in 2011 and a father of four young urged jurors to convict the children, did not intend for child’s relative of murder. the girl to die. The other

Prosecutors said John adults in the home created Michael Allen, 29, crammed the abusive home environment Ame Deal, his wife’s cousin, and were “playing inside the small storage John like a fiddle. John was box as punishment for manipulated,” Reinhardt stealing ice pops and could said. have saved her from dying The closing arguments but chose to go to sleep came as Judge Erin instead. They pointed out O’Brien Otis took the highly a few tiny holes through unusual step of barring which air could have entered news organizations from the locked box, which publishing the name of the was left outside during the prosecutor in the case. hot Phoenix summer. The names of prosecutors

“He helped his wife and other lawyers involved to sleep while Ame was in criminal cases are routinely trapped in a box that was part of the public record, 21 inches shorter than she but the judge decided was,” according to the lead to ban journalists from using prosecutor. “He chose to her name or risk being leave Ame to suffocate to found in contempt of court.