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    Pascasio Yanel Pacheco-Arellano Gets LWOP in 2015 KY Quadruple Murder






    Prosecutor to seek death penalty after family of four murdered

    CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty in the case of a man accused of killing a family of four in Calloway County in November.

    Commonwealth Attorney Mark Blankenship officially submitted paperwork that his office will seek the death penalty for Pascasio Y. Pacheco Arellano.

    Arellano is a relative to the family, two adults and two small children, who were found dead after a house fire on Nov. 17, 2015.

    According to the Calloway County Coroner Rick Harris, the people killed in the fire include: Bulmaro Arellano, 29, Marisol Hernandez, 24, a 5-year-old boy, and an 18-month-old girl.

    According to the family, the suspect is Bulmaro Arellano's nephew.

    Arellano pleaded not guilty to burglary 1st degree, four counts of murder, arson 1st degree, and tampering with physical evidence.

    Court documents led police to Pascasio Arellano's house in Mayfield after family members recorded a conversation with Arellano revealing his alleged involvement with the crime.

    Detectives met with Pascasio Y. Pacheco Arellano on Saturday, Nov. 21. They noticed he was injured and took him to a hospital for treatment where he was admitted.

    Court documents state clothes and a car floor mat covered with blood were also found inside the house.

    After he was released from the hospital, police arrested him and took him to the Calloway County Jail.

    The county attorney asked that no bond be set for Arellano based on the "horrifying facts" surrounding the case.

    The judge denied his bond.

    In a preliminary hearing December 2 in Calloway District Court, Judge Randall Hutchens found probable cause in a quadruple murder case and ordered the case bound over to a Calloway County grand jury.

    Officials investigating the arson in Calloway County, Ky. say the two adult victims died from gunshot wounds.

    According to Kentucky State Police, it is believed both children died from smoke inhalation; however, further testing is being conducted for verification.

    Police say the investigation shows that the fire in the home was intentionally set to cover up the murders.

    http://www.wave3.com/story/30893160/...-four-murdered

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    Judge grants continuance in Pacheco murder case

    The case of a Mayfield man accused of causing the deaths of four family members last November in Calloway County was continued Tuesday.

    Calloway Commonwealth Attorney Mark Blankenship asked for the continuance from Judge James T. Jameson after it was learned that the crime laboratory in charge of processing the evidence had not been able to handle those duties yet in the case of Pascasio Pacheco, 21. Blankenship said he discussed the case with Pacheco’s attorneys, Cheri Riedel and Joanne Lynch, Monday and the mutual decision was reached to ask for the continuance.

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    Trial postponed for man accused in KY family's murder

    By Amber Ruch
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    CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY - The trial for a man accused of murder in the death of a Kentucky family of four was postponed.

    Pascasio Y. Pacheco Arellano was in court on Thursday, December 7 for a pre-trial hearing.

    The defense filed a motion to take the death penalty off the table, but the judge denied that. In January 2016, Commonwealth Attorney Mark Blankenship officially submitted paperwork that his office will seek the death penalty for Arellano.

    The defense also made the motion to reschedule the trial. The judge accepted and the trial will be postponed until January 2019. It will start on Jan. 7 and last for four weeks.

    The trial was originally going to start in January 2018.

    Arellano is related to a family of four, two adults and two small children, who were found dead after a house fire on Nov. 17, 2015.

    http://www.kfvs12.com/story/37018198...familys-murder

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    Defense will argue motions in Pacheco murder case

    By John Wright Murray
    The Murray Ledger and Times

    MURRAY - A judge set an August court date for hearings on a pair of defense motions Tuesday in the case of a Mayfield man accused of killing four members of a Calloway County family in late 2015.

    Calloway Circuit Judge James T. Jameson made his rulings known as Pascasio Pacheco made his latest appearance in the case. The hearings will start at 1 p.m. Aug. 6 in Calloway Circuit Court and are expected to perhaps last as long as an hour each.

    The Calloway Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office is seeking the death penalty in the case, and both motions deal with that aspect.

    “With the first motion, the defense is seeking to challenge that the death penalty is unconstitutional, and that is something that has been done in numerous other cases. We feel confident with where we are on that,”” said Calloway Commonwealth’s Attorney Mark Blankenship.

    “With the second motion, they’re looking at jury selection in a death penalty case. They want to argue about certain conditions that should apply to that.”

    In addition, Pacheco’s attorney, Cheri Riedel, asked for permission to file additional motions, if necessary, before the Aug. 6 date.

    Pacheco is facing four counts of murder in the deaths of two adults and their two children on the night of Nov. 17, 2015, inside a home along KY 121 just south of the Murray city limits. The four victims - Bulmaro Arellano, 29, Marisol Arellano-Hernandez, 23, Miguel Angel-Arellano, 5, and Marisol Arellano, 13 months - were discovered inside a house by firefighters who had responded to a structure fire call at the residence.

    It is alleged that Pacheco set that fire. He is also accused of arson in the first degree, burglary in the first degree, tampering with physical evidence and assault in the first degree in the case.

    The trial is set for Jan.7, 2019, in Calloway Circuit Court. Jameson also set the final pretrial conference in the case for Dec. 6.

    One other development Tuesday was the news that all of the evidence in the case has been processed and is ready for use in the case. This was announced in court by Kentucky State Police Detective Trey Green, who has led the investigation of this case from the beginning.

    Blankenship said he is happy the case has reached this point.

    “We’re ready to roll now,” he said.

    http://www.kentuckynewera.com/news/a...37eb7ad7f.html
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    Jameson hears death penalty motion in Pacheco case

    By JOHN WRIGHT
    The Murray Ledger and Times

    MURRAY — A ruling is expected in the next two weeks from a judge on whether the death penalty should remain a possible penalty in the case of a Mayfield man accused of killing four members of a Calloway County family in late 2015.

    Calloway Circuit Judge James T. Jameson heard arguments for and against having the death penalty removed in the case of Pascasio Pacheco, 23, who was arrested a few days after the remains of four people — Bulmaro Arellano, 29, and his wife Marisol Arellano-Hernandez, 23, along with their two children, Miguel Angel Arellano, 5, and Marisol Arellano, 13 months — were discovered on the night of Nov. 17, 2015 inside a house along KY 121 about a mile south of the Murray city limits.

    Pacheco faces four counts of murder, first-degree arson, first-degree assault, first-degree burglary and tampering with physical evidence.

    Monday, Joanne Lynch of the Shelbyville office of the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy argued that several factors should allow Jameson to remove the death penalty from being an option for a jury in the case. Those arguments were countered by Calloway Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney James Burkeen.

    “Based on public sentiment, the (United States) Supreme Court has said that this court must look at society’s sentiment with regards to the death penalty, and that is based on legislation, public opinion polls and executive actions,” Lynch testified, pointing to an American Bar Association study from 2013 that resulted in 72.4 percent of people polled, all Kentuckians, saying that a moratorium should be issued on executions in the commonwealth until many flaws the ABA has reported are repaired. She also brought a 2016 University of Kentucky Survey Research Center poll into evidence that said 57.9 percent of those polled — again, all Kentuckians — prefer something other than the death penalty.

    “Jury verdicts also show this. Since 2010, only one death sentence has been handed down by a jury and that was for a case in Jefferson County. Juries are, over and over again, rejecting the death penalty.”

    Kentucky reinstated the death penalty in 1975. Lynch said only three executions have happened in that time frame, with only two of those dying after waiving their right to continue appealing their cases.

    “We’ve essentially had a moratorium. There is very little movement to resuming executions here,” she said.

    Lynch’s presentation took about 30 minutes. Burkeen’s rebuttal was about a third of that.

    “Essentially, what the defense’s argument is doing is to urge everyone to write your legislator about talking to the General Assembly about this issue," Burkeen said. "That’s not what we’re doing here. This court is bound by the law, and, time after time, the appellate rulings on this in Kentucky have resulted in those courts saying that the death penalty statute is constitutional. It always withstands any arguments otherwise.

    “In the 1970s, there weren’t the parameters in place that are in place today. Now, the death penalty can’t be sought in every homicide that happens, unless there is an aggravated circumstance.”

    Calloway Commonwealth’s Attorney Mark Blankenship, who has given Burkeen the No. 1 seat in the case because of his seat being up for election in November, said this case does involve such circumstances.

    “You have two things that happened here that caused death. First, you had the murder of the mother and the father (deaths an autopsy determined were caused by gunshots), then you had the fire, which led to the deaths of the kids,” Blankenship said. “So you have arson with the fire and the murder of the adults. That satisfies the conditions for us to go for the death penalty.”

    The constitutionality of the death penalty case was one of two motions Jameson heard Monday. The other was not nearly as competitive between the two sides as the defense brought up the issue of individual voir dire for determining the members of the jury for the case.

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    Jury Selection Process Starting Soon For Calloway Co. Quadruple Homicide, Arson Case

    By MATT MARKGRAF
    The Paducah Sun

    The trial for what could be the first death penalty case in Calloway County in 100 years is set for January 7.

    In Calloway County Circuit Court on Monday, Judge Jamie Jameson indicated the jury selection process will begin soon for the case involving 23-year-old Pascasio Pacheco of Mayfield.

    Pacheco is accused of shooting his aunt and uncle (Marisol Hernandez-Arallano and Bulmaro Arellano) in Calloway County and setting fire to their home, killing their two small children (Marisol and Miguel) in November 2015.

    His charges are four counts of murder as well as first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, tampering with physical evidence and first-degree assault. He is lodged in the Calloway County Detention Center.

    Prosecution is seeking the death penalty.

    Defense Attorney Joanne Lynch of Shelbyville is filing several motions, discussed on Monday. One seeks to have the court declare the death penalty unconstitutional in Kentucky, another seeks mediation. The third seeks to question potential jurors about their views on the death penalty as well as race and ethnicity and familiarity with the case.

    Lynch detailed the death penalty's rarity in the state as well as declining public opinion. She is uring the court to consider life without parole and other punishments. Kentucky has had a moratorium on the death penalty since 2010, but cases are still pursued each year.

    More background on the death penalty in Kentucky, from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.

    Commonwealth’s Attorney Mark Blankenship told local media the case meets the criteria for the death penalty. "In this case, it does because of the fire. You've got the arson. That's the felony-murder rule. While he's killing these people, then he also commits another crime, which actually led to the death of the daughter and the son," he said, adding there was evidence of stab wounds in the boy's neck and that the fire - the lack of oxygen - had killed both children. He said he looks to Jameson to deny the motion of unconstitutionality.

    Lynch noted the Mexican government has had an interest in this case. She said a consular official and a lawyer from the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program had been in touch. She said in her explaining the mediation that the matter is intra-family and has "significant language barriers." She said a formal process where parties could come together could be fruitful.

    Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney James Burkeen said he did not think mediation would be fruitful. "I'm not going to say a settlement would ever be reached. But I don't know that mediation would be more likely or less likely," he said.

    Jameson questioned whether mediation would "inject value" at this point, but asked the defense to file the motion within a couple weeks. Blankenship later told media that an individual from the MCLA had tried to convince them not to seek the death penalty, but prosecution has been clear from the beginning: "The only way we would not seek the death penalty is if the parents - or if the closest victims that are left, which we believe is the mother and father of Marisol (the adult female killed)... We said earlier, if they had a problem with the death penalty we would honor their request. We would not seek it over their objection." Blankenship the parents said wanted the jury to make the choice.

    Blankenship said he does not know whether Pacheco is an American citizen and does not know the whereabouts of his parents. "When you look at Pacheco's early statements... he really thought all that would happen is that he'd be deported," Blankenship said Pacheco's conduct should be the determining factor in this case, not his ethnicity or origin. Lynch was not reachable by phone seeking clarification.

    Prosecution didn’t object to the voir dire (preliminary questioning) of prospective jurors.

    Blankenship said hundreds of people will be needed to start the jury process, which could take several days. Judge Jameson said he did not want to delay the case.

    Blankenship said the last death penalty case in Calloway was that of Lube Martin in 1917, a black man who was sentenced for the shooting death of police officer Guthrie Diuguid, according to The Story of Calloway County 1822-1976 by Dorothy and Kerby Jennings.

    http://www.wkms.org/post/jury-select...ide-arson-case
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    Hearing For Calloway Death Penalty Case Set For Next Week

    By Shelby Frye
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    A hearing for what could be Calloway County's first death penalty case in a century is set for Thursday.

    Assistant Commonwealth Attorney James Burkeen says this status hearing is procedural in nature to aid additional discovery and jury selection.

    "The rules of criminal procedure require jury questioning in death penalty cases to be conducted in a certain manner," said Burkeen. "And they wanted a motion to make sure that process and all those requirements were met."

    Pascasio Pacheco faces charges in connection to the shooting death of his aunt and uncle and setting fire to their home, and killing the couple’s two children.

    Pacheco’s trial itself is set for January 7th.

    http://www.wkms.org/post/hearing-cal...-week#stream/0
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    Pascasio Pacheco Pleads Guilty For A Life Sentence

    Pascasio Pacheco of Mayfield pleaded guilty in Calloway Circuit Court to the 2015 shooting deaths of his aunt and uncle and the arson deaths of their two young children.

    Pacheco first pleaded not guilty in January 2016. Commonwealth Attorney Mark Blankenship said he would seek the death penalty in the trial originally set for January 7th.

    Assistant Commonwealth Attorney James Burkeen says Pacheco's plea bargain effectively cancels next month's trial.

    He will face formal sentencing on February 18th. The case is still pending until that day, when the victims' family may make a victim impact statement.

    Prosecutors have said Pacheco’s trial would have been the first death penalty case in Calloway County in around 100 years.

    http://www.wkms.org/post/pascasio-pa...tence#stream/0
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    Pascacio Pacheco sentenced to life without parole in 2015 quadruple murder

    By Krystle Callais
    WPSD-TV

    CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY — A man who pleaded guilty last year to killing his uncle and his family, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Monday.

    Pascasio Pacheco killed his uncle’s family and burned down their home in Calloway County in 2015. Two children were killed in the fire.

    Pacheco pleaded guilty last December to four counts of murder, burglary, arson, tampering with physical evidence, and assault.

    At that time, prosecutors recommended life without parole. That sentence was handed down on Monday.

    https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/2019/02/1...druple-murder/

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