Defendant Sentenced to Sixteen Years in Prison Plans to Appeal Murder Conviction

Travion T. Ford has been sentenced to 16 years to life for the second-degree murder of USC student Bryan R. Frost by the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Ford was also ordered to pay approximately $35,000 in restitution. Frost was fatally stabbed in the heart with a kitchen knife after getting into an altercation with Ford over a slammed gate door at an apartment complex.

Ford’s attorney, Diane Butko, argued that he was acting in self-defense against a drunk and aggressive Frost. As a result, Butko filed an appeal because she felt that the trial judge excluded relevant evidence pertaining to Frost’s drinking history that would have been helpful to the case. Ford also stated that he did not start the fight and would have avoided it if he could.

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