A man charged in the death of Dennis Day, an original cast member on Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club television program, has been sentenced to slightly more than four years in prison.
Daniel Burda, 41, pleaded no contest Monday to charges of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of a corpse. Prosecutors said Burda caused Day’s death and then used Day’s identity to spend money.
Burda was a live-in handyman at Day’s home in Phoenix, Oregon. The two fell out, and Day had been trying to evict him around the time he disappeared in mid-2018.
A no-contest plea is a concession that the state can prove criminal charges at trial and carries the same legal effect as a guilty plea.
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