Prosecutors argued that the unemployed Rosenfeld, who had moved into his mother's Leisure World Home, strangled her and tried to use her credit cards. He claimed he found his mother dead, and that she had passed away in her sleep.
During his sentencing hearing Friday, the victim's daughter, Catherine Asher said, "I am left feeling angry, confused, numb, depressed and sick. She meant everything to me -- my best friend, my guidance, my emotional support. There is nothing else I can say except my heart has been broken."
She asked the court to give her brother the maximum sentence for his crime.
