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Man faces death for killing Sparks teen

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7:50 a.m. PT Mar 26, 2008

RENO — A Reno jury took about four hours to convict a man in the 2006 rape and killing of a Sparks teenager.

The same panel was to return to the courtroom today, to decide whether Tamir Hamilton should receive a death penalty.

Hamilton, 30, was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of 16-year-old Holly Quick, who was found dead in her bed by her mother. Authorities said she had been raped and stabbed.

Defense lawyers argued that Hamilton, who was a friend of Quick’s older sister, suffered from severe mental illness. Prosecutors disputed the claim.

“There is no evidence of mental illness,” Deputy District Attorney Luke Prengaman told jurors in his closing argument. “He has never experienced it in his life.”

Hamilton was sentenced last year to life in prison for the sexual assault and beating of a 20-year-old University of Nevada, Reno student two weeks before Quick was killed.

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