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    Judge to decide Rodriguez appeal

    Death row inmate Rosendo Rodriguez is awaiting a Lubbock district judge's decision on his latest appeal.

    Wednesday was the final day of testimony in a hearing that resumed this week after a two-month hiatus.

    Rodriguez was convicted in 2008 of killing Summer Baldwin, who was 10 weeks pregnant. Her body was found in a suitcase, recovered from the landfill. Rodriguez is also accused of killing teenager Joanna Rogers, and disposing of her body in the same way.

    Rodriguez is basing this appeal on ineffective counsel during the investigation, trial and previous appeals.

    http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/news/loc...rl93kBjcw.cspx
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    Judge recommends 'Suitcase Killer' Rodriguez's latest appeal be denied

    A Lubbock judge has recommended the state’s highest court deny “Suitcase Killer” Rosendo Rodriguez III’s latest appeal to avoid execution for the 2005 murder of a Lubbock prostitute and her unborn child.

    District Judge Jim Bob Darnell said in an 83-page document he found no new information or issues of merit in Rodriguez’s plea to set aside his capital murder conviction on 21 different grounds, primarily based on contentions of juror misconduct and that he received inadequate legal representation from his arrest through his court appeals.

    He also claimed his attorneys should have stopped him from reneging on a plea deal — that would have resulted in a life sentence — by providing details about the disappearance of a 16-year-old Lubbock girl in 2004, whose body was later found stuffed in a suitcase and buried in a landfill.

    Darnell’s recommendation will go to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for a final review and ruling. If the state appellate court agrees with Darnell’s findings, Rodriguez’s last option is a federal habeas corpus petition to review the case.

    A jury in Canyon convicted Rodriguez in 2008 of capital murder in the death of Summer Baldwin, 29, in a Lubbock hotel room while he was in town for Marine Corps Reserve training. Evidence at trial showed Rodriguez bought a suitcase at Walmart. He stuffed Baldwin’s pregnant body in the suitcase and put it into a commercial trash bin.

    Rodriguez told investigators he’d been defending himself from Baldwin when she died. He admitted they’d had consensual sex, and told detectives she then began smoking crack. He said he took the pipe away from her and she attacked him with a pair of knives. He said he then put her in a chokehold.

    Rodriguez’s contentions he received poor advice from lawyers began with the initial investigation and extended through the appeal to the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals.

    His contentions included suggestions that his lawyers should have kept him from confessing to police, and prompted him to accept prosecutors’ offer of a deal.

    Rodriguez’s initial attorney, Albert Rodriguez, had contacted Lubbock police and given them Baldwin’s knives and arranged for his client to give that version of the story. Rodriguez’s father, Wichita Falls attorney Rosendo Rodriguez Jr., retained Albert Rodriguez to represent his son. The plea deal was arranged by another attorney, Jeff Blackburn, who Darnell noted agreed to take the case with the intention of putting a plea agreement together rather than going to trial.

    Under that deal, Rodriguez would tell what he knew about the 2004 disappearance of a 16-year-old Lubbock girl, Joanna Rogers. If the body was recovered, Rodriguez would get a life sentence. Rodriguez told investigators he’d had sex with Rogers, and when she asked him for money, he choked her to death. He then put her body in a suitcase and put it in a trash container.

    Sheriff’s deputies searched the city’s landfill for about two months before finding a suitcase with a body inside.

    Rodriguez’s attorney notified lead prosecutor Matt Powell that his client was backing out of the deal on the day the plea was scheduled to be made in Darnell’s court. Powell withdrew the offer and took the case to trial.

    http://www.myplainview.com/area_head...9bb2963f4.html
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    And then? Does this mean his execution date will be set now? Soon? Eventually?

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    Even if the case is on the fastest track I don't think anyone would expect an execution date until after 2015. Sorry to say.

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    EX PARTE ROSENDO RODRIGUEZ, III

    In today's TCCA orders, Rodriguez's application for a writ of habeas corpus was DENIED.
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    Texas court rejects body-in-luggage appeal

    A San Antonio man condemned for the 2005 slaying of a pregnant Lubbock woman whose body was stuffed inside a piece of luggage found at the Lubbock city landfill has lost an appeal at Texas' highest criminal court.

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday agreed with the Lubbock trial court which rejected an appeal from 33-year-old Rosendo Rodriguez. He's on death row for the fatal beating and choking of 29-year-old Summer Baldwin. She's identified in court documents as a drug-addicted prostitute 10 weeks pregnant.

    Rodriguez was a Marine reservist training in Lubbock. He contended the slaying was in self-defense. He said he went to a Walmart, bought the suitcase, put her body in it and tossed it in a trash bin.

    Rodriguez doesn't have an execution date.

    http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/05...#storylink=cpy
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    On August 6, 2014, Rodriguez filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/tex...cv00233/238691

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    On August 4, 2016, Rodriguez filed an appeal before the U.S Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...s/ca5/16-70020
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    COA denied today by the 5th Circuit.

    http://cases.justia.com/federal/appe...?ts=1495668634
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    4 Texas death row inmates lose appeals at US Supreme Court

    HOUSTON - An East Texas woman on death row for the slaying of her developmentally disabled baby sitter and a man convicted of the killings of four people in suburban Dallas are among four condemned Texas prisoners losing appeals at the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The high court, without comment, refused to review the case of 50-year-old Kimberly Cargill, of Whitehouse, who was convicted in Smith County in 2012.

    The justices Monday also refused appeals from 36-year-old Raul Cortez, condemned for a 2004 quadruple fatal shooting in McKinney in Collin County; 37-year-old Rosendo Rodriguez III, convicted of the slaying of a pregnant San Antonio woman in 2005; and 32-year-old Damon Matthews, on death row for a 2003 Houston killing and car theft.

    None of the four prisoners has an execution date.

    http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news...181661386.html
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