Man Who Murdered In Hollywood For Spinner Rims Ineligible For Resentencing, Court Rules

LOS ANGELES, CA — A man convicted of murdering another man in order to steal the expensive spinner rims on his car in Hollywood is not eligible for resentencing, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

The 2nd District Court of Appeal denied Jamar Cornell Nunally's petition for re-sentencing under a recent state law that allows judges to reconsider sentences for some murder convictions. The three-judge panel ruled that Nunally "acted with reckless indifference to human life, and therefore was ineligible for resentencing" for his 2006 conviction of the killing of Ryan Groetken, 25, outside a Hollywood apartment building three years earlier.

Nunally pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and later unsuccessfully tried to withdraw his plea. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison.

Nunally and two accomplices confronted Groetken as he parked his Lexus GS outside an apartment building in Central Hollywood. They demanded his keys and though Groetken complied, Dane Woodson shot Groetken in the back, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.

Woodson, now 39, is serving a sentence of 35 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder. A third man pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact and got a four-year prison term.

Investigators found the Lexus in the high desert city of Ridgecrest, minus the rims, after the murder, the Times reported.

City News Service contributed to this report.