With jury selection completed over several days, attorneys in a Vallejo jury trial on Wednesday offered their opening statements in Department 15 in a case involving for a year-old man who is believed to be a member of a Vallejo criminal street gang and accused of a first-degree murder near a railroad overcrossing.
Seated at the defense table, Jose Alberto Gonzalez — his black hair tied back into a short ponytail and wearing a maroon shirt and gray-and-black tie over dark slacks — listened intently as Solano County Deputy District Attorney Julie Underwood asserted that the defendant was among two shooters who, on Aug.
Gonzalez and what points to Mr. He is represented by criminal defense attorney Leslie Prince. Shortly after the outset of her statement, Underwood showed graphic photographs of the area claimed by the Brown Brotherhood, a subset woman looking for man in Santa Cruz CA the Sureno criminal street gang.
Underwood said Souza was walking along train tracks underneath the bridge when he was allegedly confronted by Gonzalez and another suspected gang member. Gonzalez and a co-defendant were armed with handguns, she said. Fletcher, found the body and thought the person was sleeping as insects crawled or buzzed over the body, riddled with nine bullets, six.
Court records indicate Vallejo police officers arrested Gonzalez a week later, on Valley AL girl for dating. A forensic analysis of the. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, gun and gang-related charges.
Charges against Enrique Hector Pearce, initially a co-defendant in the case, were dismissed on July 17, Gomez is not charged with murder and accepted a plea agreement in order to testify in the case, Underwood pointed out.
If found guilty of all the charges, Gonzalez may be sentenced to as much as 60 years to life in state prison. At about 11 a. Underwood also called Fletcher to the witness stand, as in most courts these days fronted by a Plexiglas shield, who admitted that she did not recall anything about what she encountered on Aug. At the time, she told investigators that, after the shooting as she looked out from the sidewalk at her residence, casual dating Cape Coral FL saw a Hispanic man, with short hair and wearing a baseball cap, walking in the area.
They looked more Latino. The trial continued into the afternoon and s at a.
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