A San Diego jury — actually two separate juries — returned guilty verdicts Thursday against both parents of a baby girl who starved to death in a City Heights apartment in late 2021, convicting each of second-degree murder.

Brandon Copeland and Elizabeth Ucman have been jailed since the death of their daughter Delilah, who was just 3 months old when she died on November 10, 2021. At the time of her death, Delilah weighed less than 4 pounds — roughly half of what she weighed at birth.

The trial was unusual in structure: each defendant had their own independently deliberating jury. Though both were originally charged with first-degree murder, prosecutors modified their pursuit during trial to second-degree murder. Both juries independently chose to convict on that charge rather than the lesser alternatives of involuntary manslaughter or criminal negligence. Second-degree murder typically carries a sentence of 15 years to life in prison. Sentencing is expected as early as April.

Body camera footage shown to jurors depicted the baby limp inside a trash-strewn apartment filled with spoiled food and animal feces. San Diego County social workers had an active case involving the family, and documents showed Delilah had been under the care of a great-aunt for her first month of life until the parents cleaned their apartment. Family members had pleaded with social workers not to return Delilah to the home.

The case drew wider attention after NBC 7 Investigates won a legal ruling to access the county's social worker case files, which revealed that Delilah had not been seen by a social worker for 55 days before her death. The San Diego County Child and Family Well-Being Department declined repeated requests to comment on what happened in the case.