Hust, then 21, also lacked the ability to plan the complex attack and avoid spreading evidence to his own room and other parts of the house, Dumas said.
Jul 28, 2022Leland Hust at his sentencing hearing Thursday in the 2018 rape and strangulation death of 6-year-old Ariana "Jade" Romeo at a house in Rio Rancho. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)