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    DA office asks court to resume death case

    By Shannon Crabtree
    El Campo Leader News


    Wharton County prosecutors requested Monday that the 13th District Court of Appeals allow the capital murder trial of Robert Allen Satterfield to proceed.

    The defense team wants to test a gun not in the evidence, an item the Wharton County District Attorney’s Office cannot produce because it did not seize it earlier as part of the murder investigation, according to the appeal response filed with the 13th District Monday.

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    DA wants quick decision in murder case

    By Shannon Crabtree
    Wharton Journal Spectator

    With selected jurors left waiting, the Wharton County District Attorney’s Office asked the 13th District Court of Appeals to quickly decide on what an accused killer’s defense team should be entitled to.

    Until justices rule on requests for ballistics and DNA testing, however, Robert Allen Satterfield’s capital murder trial has been placed on hold.

    “Expediting this proceeding will help ensure that the trial can continue with the presently selected jury, so as to avoid the additional delay and wasted resources necessary to call hundreds more citizens to conduct weeks more of voir dire (jury selection),” District Attorney Dawn Allison wrote in her Dec. 21 motion before the 13th District Court.

    Satterfield awaits trial for allegedly killing 5-year-old Ray Shawn Hudson Jr. of Angleton on June 13, 2018. The boy’s body was found in a burn pit on private property off Floyd Road in Burr. Allison’s office opted not to proceed with indictments alleging Satterfield also killed the child’s parents, Ray Shawn Hudson Sr., 28, or Maya Victoria Rivera, 24, of Angleton. The couple were found the same day in the same location as the child. All appear to have been shot.

    The DA’s office gave no statement on why the two murders are not being prosecuted at this point while the defense team says the decision was made to remove a self-defense claim.

    No timeline has been released for the 13th District Court of Appeals to issue its decision on defense requests.

    “The court of appeals issued a stay, which means that the case at the trial court level stands still. Nothing will happen at the trial court level while the stay is in effect. There is no way to predict how long this will take,” said Randy Clapp, district judge of Wharton County’s 329th District Court where the case is pending.

    The appeals court calendar currently shows an opportunity for both the prosecution and defense to file miscellaneous motions by Thursday, Dec. 29. No other target dates are listed.

    “A death qualified jury was selected three weeks ago after more than a month of individual voir dire (jury selection). The longer this court’s order staying trial proceedings remains in effect, the greater the possibility that one or more of those selected jurors may not be able to, or may find it more difficult to, serve,” Allison argues to the court.

    No defense response had been posted by press time Tuesday.

    Last week, the defense claimed .38 caliber shell casings found in the burn pit shed doubt on the prosecution’s stance that the three were killed with a 9mm belonging to Satterfield, creating the possibility of additional suspects.

    Without the testing, the defense claims Satterfield cannot receive a fair trial.

    At least one person has been granted immunity from prosecution in this case in exchange for cooperation with prosecutors.

    A gag order prevents either side from speaking to the media.

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    Stay lifted; Angleton family’s accused killer will be back in court Monday

    Trial of Angleton family's accused killer can proceed

    By Shannon Crabtree
    The Facts

    WHARTON — Robert Allen Satterfield will return to Wharton County’s 329th District Court for the restart of his capital murder trial Monday.

    The 13th District Court of Appeals lifted its stay Thursday, allowing the trial halted Nov. 28 to proceed.

    “The jury already selected will be sworn in that morning, and the case will continue until concluded,” 329th District Judge Randy Clapp said Tuesday.

    The jury will be asked first to consider whether Satterfield is guilty. Should they vote to convict, a punishment phase will start where the jury will consider whether Satterfield should be sentenced to die.

    “I have no idea how long each phase will take, but I am expecting each to last two to three weeks. It is difficult to predict how a case such as this will unfold,” Clapp said.

    Satterfield faces trial for the death of 5-year-old Ray Shawn Hudson Jr. on Floyd Road outside Burr in East Wharton County on June 13, 2018. Prosecutors opted to not pursue charges for the alleged murders of the boy’s parents Ray Shawn Hudson Sr., 28, and Maya Victoria Rivera, 24, of Angleton on the same day.

    Defense attorneys said the decision was made to eliminate a self-defense argument in court. The DA’s office declined comment on its trial strategy until after a verdict is rendered.

    “The State is ready for trial,” Wharton County District Attorney Dawn Allison said Monday.

    A request for comment sent to the defense team had not been returned by Tuesday afternoon.

    Satterfield’s attorneys requested and received a stay from the 13th District Court of Appeals, saying they could not mount an adequate defense without a chance to test ballistics on a weapon owned by the landowner and DNA from an assortment of locations.

    Court filings indicate the defense questioned whether Satterfield’s 9mm pistol was the firearm used to kill the three because shell casings from a .38 caliber gun were found in the same burn pit as the three victims.

    No other people have been charged in the homicides, though at least one person reportedly has been granted immunity from prosecution.

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    Testimony opens in slaying of Angleton boy

    DA lays out death timeline to start murder trial

    By Chris Barbee
    The Facts

    WHARTON — The capital murder trial of Robert Allen Satterfield got under way Monday morning, 4 1/2 years after an Angleton family was last seen.

    The burned remains of Ray Shawn “Baby Ray” Hudson Jr., 5; his mother Maya Victoria Rivera, 24; and his father, Ray Shawn Hudson Sr., 28; were discovered in a burn pit in East Wharton County near Burr six days after the family disappeared June 10, 2018.

    Satterfield, 41, is accused of killing Baby Ray with a 9mm bullet on property owned by Henry Floyd. Satterfield pleaded not guilty to the charge of intentionally shooting the boy. The prosecutors decided not to try Satterfield on charges of allegedly killing the parents at this time.

    With about 80 people in Judge Randy Clapp’s 329th District Court courtroom, including roughly a dozen members of Maya Rivera’s family, opening arguments began with Wharton County District Attorney Dawn Allison setting the stage in her opening statements.

    On the last day anyone had seen the deceased, Allison told jurors, the boy was looking forward to his fifth birthday the next day, June 11.

    “He never saw his big party planned for that Saturday,” she said.

    Allison asked the jury to consider the following:

    On the last day of his life, Baby Ray witnessed his mother being shot. He had screamed and was then shot because he had seen too much, the DA said.

    She said Satterfield lured the family to Floyd’s property with the promise of taking them fishing. When they arrived at the property, Maya and Baby Ray stayed in the car while Ray Shawn went to find Satterfield. Maya reportedly neither liked nor trusted Satterfield, who apparently met her husband in prison.

    Allison conjectured the mother finally got out of the car to look for Ray Shawn, who had been gone for a long time. Satterfield supposedly invited her to go to the back of the property, where the burn pit was located. In the pit was Ray Shawn’s dead body, and it was on fire.

    The DA asked the jury to believe Maya Rivera was shot and killed. With Baby Ray probably screaming, Satterfield possibly went to the car, took Baby Ray out, and shot him in the back of the head, Allison argued.

    The DA said Satterfield took sheets and pulled the bodies of the mother and her son into the trunk of her car, drove them to the burn pit and tossed them in. Maya’s personal property from the car also was thrown into the fire.

    Satterfield then took the car and abandoned it under a bridge, Allison said. After doing so, a man saw him walking and gave him a ride to Wharton and eventually to the Crown Inn Motel, 1303 N. Richmond Road, she said.

    Maya Rivera did not show up for work June 12 and failed to pick up her mother, Frances, for a doctor appointment June 13. The search for the family began when her mother filed a missing persons report with the Angleton Police Department.

    After Allison finished her sequence of events, defense attorney Brian Lacour got his turn, saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, now we want to tell you the rest of the story.”

    “Evidence has to match the statements,” Lacour said. “Law enforcement did a poor job investigating and gathering evidence.”

    He admonished the jury to “look at this case through the lens of beyond a reasonable doubt.”

    Lacour said Henry Floyd called 911 because he was afraid the families were going to come onto his property in search of their loved ones. Floyd reportedly went with a Texas Ranger and a Wharton County sheriff’s deputy to search the property.

    He said the Ranger called the Rosenberg Police Department to determine if Satterfield, who was in a Rosenberg jail on a drug charge, had made any phone calls. Lacour said Floyd got nervous (because he and Satterfield had talked) and eventually took the officers to the burn pit.

    Lacour said evidence will show Floyd and his son Ryan were accomplices, but were given immunity by the state for their testimony.

    The first witness, Frances Rivera, said she last saw her daughter, Baby Rae and Ray Shawn, who all lived with her, as they were leaving the house to go to church June 10. Speaking of Baby Ray, she said, “I would have hugged him longer if I’d known that would be the last time.”

    The family left in Maya Rivera’s gray or silver 2015 Hyundai Genesis, her mother said, the same car Satterfield was later driving when stopped and arrested by Rosenberg police.

    A number of things happened after that Sunday that gave Rivera cause for concern. First, the trio did not show up Monday to celebrate Baby Ray’s fifth birthday with cake and ice cream. Second, on Tuesday, Maya did not pick up her mother to take her to a doctor appointment to discuss her eligibility for a liver transplant. And third, Maya did not report to work at the Dow wellness center for two days.

    Based on all that, Frances Rivera filed a missing person report.

    Under cross-examination by Lacour, Frances Rivera said Maya was 16 when she met Ray Shawn, and Baby Ray was born while his father was in prison, which is where Ray Shawn and Satterfield met.

    Rivera later went to the Floyd property off Floyd Road.

    “It was scary. I was shaking. I fell to the ground,” she testified.

    Kelly Armstrong, Maya’s supervisor at the wellness center in Dow’s Texas Innovation Center in Lake Jackson, said Maya was well-liked, and did not miss work without notifying her so her massage therapy appointments could be rescheduled. When Maya didn’t show up for work a second day in a row and did not respond to texts and phone calls, Armstrong testified she called another place Maya worked, a chiropractor, and finally human resources to find her emergency contact, which was her mother.

    Michelle Guzman, a Brazoria County adult probation officer and relative of the Rivera’s by marriage, testified a Facebook post by Maya’s sister caused her concern, as did her dissatisfaction with the Angleton Police Department’s efforts to find Maya. Guzman undertook her own search, which included a call to the Brazoria County District Attorney, whom she credits with raising the level of interest in finding the missing family, Guzman testified.

    Rosenberg Police Officer Josh Manriquez, who pulled over and arrested Satterfield on June 14, said officers questioned the driver about why he was driving a car that was not his. He told Manriquez it had been loaned to him, the officer testified.

    The trial resumed at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

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    Ranger concludes Satterfield testimony

    By Chris Barbee
    Fort Bend Herald

    A discrepancy in Robert Allen Satterfield’s testimony was highlighted as soon as Texas Ranger David Chauvin began his third full day of testimony in the capital murder trial Tuesday.

    By the time he was released Wednesday at 4:35 p.m., the Ranger had spent 4˝ days in the witness box.

    Also, Chauvin agreed with lead defense attorney Brian Lacour that two of the three murder victims might be alive today had the landowner warned them or called law enforcement when he learned someone had already been killed on his property.

    The eight-man, seven-woman jury (including alternates) began listening to the second week of testimony Tuesday, following Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday.

    During the holiday weekend, Chauvin went back to listen to audio recordings of conversations between himself and Satterfield, 41, who is being tried on a capital murder charge for killing Ray Shawn “Baby Ray” Hudson Jr. of Angleton on Sunday, June 10, 2018.

    The boy would have turned 5 the next day.

    Also killed were his father, Ray Shawn Hudson Sr., 28; and his mother, Maya Victoria Rivera, 24.

    Wharton County Assistant District Attorney Lance Long asked Chauvin to explain what he had discovered.

    In previous comments the defendant had said Ray Shawn Sr. pulled a knife on Satterfield before being shot. But in listening to recordings last weekend, Satterfield told Chauvin that he first pulled the gun, then Hudson pulled a knife and started backing up toward the burn pit on Henry Floyd’s land near Burr.

    Satterfield said he shot Hudson three times while trying to get information out of him about several men who were harassing him on Facebook, calling him a snitch, a dog, boxing him in on the road and other things that made him worry, possibly about his own safety.

    The defendant said as Hudson was backing up he shot him in the torso, then shot him a second time in the torso, and “while he was rolling on the ground” shot him in the back of the head, killing him.

    He dragged his dead body into the pit, put trash on top of him, applied lighter fluid and set him on fire, Satterfield admitted during one of several conversations with Chauvin.

    In that recording, Satterfield never said he shot Hudson in self-defense, Long pointed out.

    Right before lunch Tuesday, the prosecution passed Chauvin to the defense team for cross-examination. Many of the questions had already been asked before during Chauvin’s long stint in the witness box, but new bits of information were often revealed.

    For one, Chauvin said the magazine of the 9mm semi-automatic handgun was never found in the location Satterfield said he tossed it along Highway 90. The Ranger had testified last week and again Tuesday that DPS divers were not able to find the gun in the Brazos River. However, he testified that the knife used to cut up the trunk liner of Maya’s car was found buried in sand along a river.

    Henry Floyd, on whose Burr-area land the Angleton family were allegedly shot, killed, burned and covered up by Satterfield with the aid of a backhoe belonging to Floyd, had come home from church that Sunday.

    Floyd was interviewed at the Wharton County Sheriff’s Office June 15 starting at 10:56 p.m. The interview continued until after 1:15 a.m. June 16.

    This was after Chauvin had already talked to him at his home starting at 9:10 p.m. He was not Mirandized because he was considered a witness, not a suspect. As such he was interviewed, not interrogated.

    Floyd said he went to the fire pit where Satterfield was burning trash and he saw the body of Ray Shawn Sr. Chauvin asked him if the boy and his mother were still alive at that time. Floyd said they were. That he’d seen them in Maya’s car.

    In fact, he said they had left his property and drove down CR 115, but she came back and parked down by the house of Floyd’s late brother, Elliott. Which is where she and her son died.

    Lacour asked Chauvin a series of questions concerning Maya and Baby Ray, and Henry Floyd’s failure to possibly save them.

    Lacour: “When Floyd said he saw Ray Shawn’s body in the pit, Maya was still alive, right?”

    Chauvin: “Yes.”

    Lacour: “He could have saved her life, right?”

    Chauvin: “Yes.”

    Lacour: “Henry Floyd could have saved Ray Shawn Hudson Jr. too, is that right?”

    Chauvin: “Yes.”

    Lacour: “He could have told her to leave, or he could have called law enforcement and saved her life, correct?”

    Chauvin: “Yes sir.”

    The prosecution did not object to this line of questioning. It was also revealed that after he saw Ray Shawn’s body in the pit that Floyd went home and went to bed. However, he did say he didn’t sleep.

    Floyd said during the interview that when he talked to Satterfield after seeing the body in the pit that he saw the outline of the pistol in the defendant’s pants pocket.

    He said Satterfield had bought it a couple of months earlier from someone for $600. Asked why he hadn’t reported the killing, Floyd said, “I didn’t want the same thing to happen to my family.”

    And he said Satterfield, the father of Floyd’s 2-year-old grandson, asked him not to say anything.

    Chauvin said he couldn’t believe how well Floyd, during the interview, appeared to be handling what he had seen. Chauvin also admitted that he was frustrated with Floyd, and even confused by Floyd changing his story, or withholding information.

    He said he and Ranger James Wilkins didn’t feel Floyd was telling them everything he knew.

    Floyd finally admitted he told his son, Ryan Floyd, the evening of June 10 about the dead man in the burn pit.

    Chauvin asked how Ryan reacted. Floyd said his son threw his arms in the air and said, “See what you brought to this house?”

    During the video recorded interview at the WCSO, Ranger Wilkins started applying pressure.

    “We need the truth, right now! A lot of what you’re saying doesn’t make sense!”

    Wilkins said at 11:50 p.m. Wilkins asked Floyd how his story would match Ryan’s story “100 percent,” Floyd said.

    Floyd told Rangers he saw the bodies of Maya and Baby Ray about 8 a.m. Monday. Satterfield had previously told Rangers the bodies burned during the night, which could have been during dark hours Sunday night and Monday morning.

    Wilkins asked what he did after seeing the two bodies (three counting Ray Shawn the day before).

    “I got in my truck and went back to the house,” he said.

    The two bodies were in front of his late brother’s house about a half mile away.

    “What did you do after that,” Wilkins asked.

    Floyd said nothing; that he didn’t want to get involved.

    “It seems to me you just went about your day. You’ve seen three dead people and you just went about your day?” Wilkins asked Floyd.

    “I should have gone back to the house and called the sheriff,” Floyd said.

    “I know what you should have done,” Wilkins said.

    Wilkins continued to express concern that Floyd didn’t seem bothered about it; showed no emotion about what had happened on his property. Rangers thought Floyd might have been trying to protect his son Ryan.

    “I ain’t protecting nobody,” he said.

    Satterfield had already admitted to Rangers that he had acted alone.

    Questions were then asked about Floyd’s backhoe that was used to both cover up the bodies, and later to dig up the burned remains.

    It was revealed in court that Henry Floyd’s occupation is grave digger, and that is what he uses the backhoe for. Chauvin said as far as he knew no DNA testing was done on the backhoe to try to link Satterfield to it.

    The Ranger admitted that because Floyd was 77 he had not been firm with him when interviewing him.

    But he said he was aggravated with him, so while interviewing him on June 18 “I threw some stuff out there,” but he stayed with his story.

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    Defense loses 3 of 4 witnesses in Satterfield case

    By Chris Barbee
    Wharton Journal Spectator

    Since the State rested its case late Tuesday afternoon against Robert Allen Satterfield for the June 10, 2018, capital murder of Ray Shawn “Baby Ray” Hudson Jr., 4, the Regional Public Defender For Capital Cases team arrived at the Wharton County Courthouse Wednesday morning to start defending their client.

    It didn’t exactly go according to plan.

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    Satterfield fires defense lawyers, will defend himself

    By Chris Barbee
    Wharton Journal Spectator

    As a Wharton County jury was making its way Monday from the third floor jury room to the second floor district courtroom in the courthouse, murder defendant Robert Allen Satterfield stood and told 329th District Court Judge Randy Clapp he wanted to represent himself going forward.

    The jury, which had not yet entered the courtroom, was immediately sent back upstairs.

    Monday was beginning the fourth week of the capital murder trial of Satterfield, who has been charged with killing Ray Shawn “Baby Ray” Hudson Jr., 4, of Angleton on June 10, 2018. He has also been charged, but is not currently being tried, for the murder of Baby Ray’s parents, Ray Shawn Hudson Sr., 28, and Maya Victoria Rivera, 24.

    Prosecution and defense attorneys, and Clapp, spent almost 50 minutes reviewing case law to make sure the judge proceeded properly with Satterfield’s request.

    Clapp finally asked the defendant a series of questions, such as his age, background and education to understand the implications and dangers of self-representation.

    He told Satterfield the nature of his offense and that if found guilty would either receive life in prison without the chance of parole, or death. Satterfield was also told he must comply with technical rules of evidence and procedure; that he will not be given special consideration because of his lack of legal training; that he will not be allowed to obstruct the orderly procedure of the court; and that he has no right to standby counsel.

    However, Clapp did offer Satterfield standby counsel, but he waived that right.

    Satterfield signed a waiver of right to counsel, and Clapp signed it as presiding judge and released Satterfield’s legal team.

    The judge allowed him to use the district courtroom the rest of the day Monday to prepare for trial, which the judge ruled would resume Tuesday at 9 a.m.

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    Satterfield calls 7 witnesses, rests his defense

    By Chris Barbee
    Wharton Journal Spectator

    Robert Allen Satterfield, after calling five witnesses to the stand Tuesday morning and two after lunch, told the court at 1:20 p.m. he had no further witnesses to call and that the defense rested.

    The prosecution rested as well, ending 16 days of testimony in the capital murder trial State of Texas vs. Robert Allen Satterfield.

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    Satterfield found guilty

    By Chris Barbee
    The Wharton Journal-Spectator

    A Wharton County jury took five hours to come back with a “guilty as charged in the indictment” verdict in capital murder trial of Robert Allen Satterfield.

    Satterfield was found guilty of the murder of Ray Shawn “Baby Ray” Hudson Jr., who would have celebrated his fifth birthday the day after he was murdered on June 10, 2018, on rural property near Burr in East Wharton County. He was killed along with his parents, Ray Shawn Hudson Sr., 28, and Maya Victoria Rivera, 24, all of Angleton.

    Judge Randy Clapp of the 329th District Court recessed the court Wednesday until 9 a.m. Thursday when the punishment phase will begin. The jury has just two choices to make: Life in prison without parole or the death penalty.

    “Each will result in his incarceration,” Clapp told the jury.

    Clapp said both the prosecution and the defense will present testimony during the punishment phase. Satterfield dismissed his appointed legal team from the state’s Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases office Monday morning and is now representing himself.

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    40-year-old habitual offender sentenced to death in Wharton Co. for killing family of 3, burning their bodies

    By Randy Wallace
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    WHARTON COUNTY, Texas - During a 2018 jail interview, FOX 26 asked Robert Allen Satterfield if he killed 28-year-old Ray Shawn Hudson Sr., 24-year-old Maya Rivera, and their 4-year-old son, Ray Shawn Hudson Jr.

    "No, I did not," Satterfield replied.

    But it only took five hours for a Wharton County jury to find him guilty of capital murder, and just 45 minutes to sentence him to death.

    "This particular defendant had a long extensive criminal history, had gang affiliations, has been a problem in the county jail and showed no remorse," said Wharton County DA Dawn Allison.

    We caught up with the victims' relatives as they celebrated the conviction and death sentence.

    "Oh, we're happy," said Frances Rivera, Maya's mother. "This is for baby Ray. All of this is for baby Ray."

    Satterfield killed the couple and four-year-old baby Ray on June 10, 2018. He burned their bodies in a pit.

    "They were put in a pit like trash. It was very heartbreaking to see the actual burn pit and what they had to go through," Rivera said. "Baby Ray saw his mother being shot. The only reason he killed baby Ray was because he could identify him."

    "He showed signs of paranoia. He thought people were after him. He actually planned this, I invited a few people out," Allison said. "He felt like he was being disrespected by them. It could have been robbery, it could have been over the sake of a gun."

    "He won't be able to touch his children, or hug his children the way we're not able to hug and touch our children. He won't be able to do that either," said Rivera. "If he stays on death row five years, 10 years, or 30 years from now, we know he's not going to be able to enjoy life."

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    I’m going to the ghost McDonalds - Garcello

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