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    Juan Raul Navarro-Ramirez - Texas Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    Sentenced to death for his participation in the so-called "Edinburg Massacre" which left six rival gang members dead on January 5, 2003. The victims were Jimmy Edward Almendariz, 22; brothers Jerry Eugene Hidalgo, 24, and Ray Hidalgo, 30; half brothers Juan Delgado, Jr., 32, and Juan Delgado III, 20; and Ruben Rolando Castillo, 32 - all died of multiple gunshot wounds.

    Ramirez was sentenced to death in Hidalgo County in December 2004.

    Also sentenced to death were Humberto Garza III, Robert Gene Garza and Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano.

    For more on Humberto Garza III, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...exas-Death-Row
    For more on Robert Gene Garza, who was executed on September 19, 2013, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...exas-Death-Row
    For more on Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...hlight=rodolfo

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    IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
    OF TEXAS

    NO. WR-71,401-01
    EX PARTE JUAN RAUL NAVARRO RAMIREZ

    ON APPLICATION FOR POST-CONVICTION WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
    FILED IN CAUSE NO. CR-0551-04-G(1) IN THE 370TH DISTRICT COURT
    HIDALGO COUNTY

    Per Curiam ORDER

    In December 2004, a jury found applicant guilty of the offense of capital murder. The jury answered the statutory punishment questions in such a way that the trial court set applicant's punishment at death. This Court affirmed applicant's conviction and sentence on direct appeal. Ramirez v. State, No. AP-75,167 (Tex.Crim.App. December 12, 2007). On February 11, 2009, this Court remanded applicant's case to the trial court. It has been more than two years since the application was remanded. Accordingly, we order the trial court to resolve any remaining issues within 90 days from the date of this order. The clerk shall then transmit the complete writ record to this Court within 120 days from the date of this order. Any extensions of time shall be obtained from this Court.

    IT IS SO ORDERED THIS THE 1ST DAY OF AUGUST, 2012

    http://law.justia.com/cases/texas/co...71-401-01.html

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    ARTICLE 11.071 APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DENIED WITH WRITTEN ORDER:

    http://www.search.txcourts.gov/Searc...3-79ac516d5dee

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    On October 30, 2015, Navarro-Ramirez filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/te...c01759/1308528

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    Valley death row inmate granted stay of execution

    A Court granted a death row inmate’s request for a stay of execution, court records show.

    In a Sept. 17 order filed in the Southern District of Texas, U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez granted Juan Raul Navarro-Ramirez’s motion for a stay — adopting, in its entirety, the “Report and Recommendation,” order from Magistrate Judge Peter E. Ormsby filed in July, the record states.

    Navarro-Ramirez, 35, who has been sitting on death row in Livingston, Texas, for nearly 15 years, was convicted of 2 counts of murder in December 2004 and given a sentence of death in connection with a failed drug rip against rival gangmembers that left 6 men dead in January of 2003.

    Navarro-Ramirez, and several fellow members of the Tri-City Bombers, wearing law enforcement gear, participated in the robbery of drugs from a rival gang at a stash house in Edinburg. Ultimately, 6 men were killed, and at least 10 co-defendants arrested in connection with the incident, including Juan Arturo Villarreal Cordova, Robert Garza, Jeffrey Juarez, Reymundo Sauceda, Robert Cantu, Salvador Solis, Juan Miguel Nunez, Juan Ramirez and Jorge Espinosa Martinez.

    Originating from the Pharr, San Juan, and Alamo area as a breakdancing crew called the “Tri-City Poppers,” the crew began their criminal enterprise first with petty crimes, and then eventually graduated to drug trafficking, drug rips, and murder.

    In 2007, after Navarro-Ramirez filed an appeal, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the state district court’s judgment on the death sentence, on the first count of murder, but reversed the second count of murder on the grounds of double-jeopardy, court notes show.

    The following year, in October 2008, the Supreme Court denied the petition for appeal filed by Navarro-Ramirez.

    Under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death penalty Act, AEDPA, Navarro-Ramirez had one full year from the denial of his direct appeal to the Supreme Court, to file a federal petition for a “writ of habeas corpus.”

    On July 2, 2009, Navarro-Ramirez filed a state application for the writ.

    The trial judge, subsequently, after receiving the briefing from the parties, entered findings of facts and conclusions of law recommending that relief be denied.

    Several years later, on Oct. 14, 2015, the Court of Criminal Appeals, adopted the lower court’s recommendation and denied Navarro-Ramirez’s request for relief.

    But, on Oct. 23, 2015, Navarro-Ramirez filed a “Chapter 64” motion; for post-conviction DNA testing in state district court which authorizes a motion seeking forensic DNA testing of evidence that was in the possession of the state during trial, but was either not previously subjected to DNA testing, or can be subjected to newer testing techniques.

    Nearly 2 years later, on June 7, 2017, unbeknownst to Navarro-Ramirez, the state trial court had denied his Chapter 64 motion, but the court entered that order under the incorrect case number — and failed to serve the order to Navarro-Ramirez’s post-conviction attorney.

    Because Navarro-Ramirez was unaware of this error, he was unable to immediately file an appeal.

    Subsequently, the state trial court became aware of the error, and entered a superseding order on Oct. 21, 2018, specifying that the order was intended “to allow (Navarro-Ramirez) an opportunity to appeal the denial of his Chapter 64 motion,” the court record states.

    In arguing against Navarro-Ramirez’s request for a stay, counsel for respondent Lorie Davis, the Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, claimed, among other reasons, that the stay would be “improper,” because Navarro-Ramirez’s Chapter 64 motion did not exhaust any claim he had raised in his federal petition, the court documents show.

    On July 22, 2019, Ormsby recommended that Navarro-Ramirez’s stay of execution be granted, and administratively closed, and that Navarro-Ramirez be ordered to open this case within 30 days after the Chapter 64 litigation concludes.

    (source: The Monitor)
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    Denial of post-conviction DNA testing affirmed by the TCCA.

    https://search.txcourts.gov/handdown...ate=05/05/2021
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