District Attorney Larry D. Morse II announced today that Julio Cesar Bonilla was sentenced to 44 years to life in state prison for the 2009 murders of William & Maria Cisneros. Chief Deputy District Attorney John Goold prosecuted the case.
Bonilla, age 55 of Mexico, was convicted in February, 2011 by a Merced County Superior Court jury of the first degree murder of William Cisneros, a retired Merced City Schools employee and the second degree murder of William’s wife, Maria Clara Cisneros.
