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    Judge rejects new trial for gang member in death of LA athlete; jury has recommended death

    A Los Angeles judge has refused to grant a new trial for a gang member convicted of killing a star high school athlete.

    Prosecutors have said the athlete was targeted because he was carrying a red Spider-Man backpack, a color perceived by Pedro Espinoza as linking Jamiel Shaw II to an opposing gang

    The judge said Friday that evidence that Espinoza killed Shaw was overwhelming and rejected defense arguments that Espinoza didn't get a fair trial.

    A jury has recommended death for Espinoza and the judge said he would consider a motion to modify that to life without parole before he imposes a sentence.

    Shaw was a standout running back at Los Angeles High School when he was gunned down in 2008. He was not a gang member.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/02...#ixzz2B68zZA61
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    Gang member gets death sentence in athlete murder

    A gang member who killed a promising Los Angeles High School football player because he believed the athlete's red Spider-Man backpack linked him to an opposing gang was sentenced to death on Friday.

    Pedro Espinoza had told authorities he was willing to kill for his gang, even if it meant going to death row.

    Superior Court Judge Ronald H. Rose imposed that very sentence — ordering Espinoza taken to San Quentin State Prison. The judge rejected defense arguments that the 23-year-old didn't get a fair trial.

    "The evidence is clear he decided to murder the victim in cold blood and bragged about the killings after," Rose said. "The defendant executed the victim as he lay on the ground defenseless."

    Jamiel Shaw II was a 17-year-old standout running back when he was gunned down in 2008. He was not a gang member.

    His parents and friends appeared in court Friday wearing red. They said it wasn't to symbolize a gang — but for "the blood spilled."

    "You don't have a right to execute someone and then come in and plead not to be executed," said Jamiel Shaw Sr., the father of the victim.

    Shaw said he devoted his life to preparing his son for a brilliant athletic career.

    "We really thought we had a chance," he said. "My son was groomed to succeed."

    Anita Shaw, a U.S. Army sergeant, told of being in Iraq on her second tour of duty when she was summoned by her commander and told that her son had been murdered.

    "I lost it," she said. She invoked scripture, saying she knew she was supposed to forgive — but "I'm not that strong of a person."

    Espinoza didn't move and didn't look at Shaw's parents as they spoke.

    The judge noted that Espinoza had been released from jail shortly before the killing on an unrelated charge and had been counseled by an officer who warned him of the consequences of further criminal behavior.

    Rose urged the family to focus on raising their 13-year-old son, Thomas, who also attended the sentencing. Shaw said outside court he would do that but feels the gang situation has changed parenting.

    "You're not raising them anymore," he said. "You're trying to keep them alive."

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    do you know any information of how i can reach him?

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    Nope. He isn't listed on the CA DOC website yet.
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    'They aren't supposed to be here': Father of boy killed by illegal immigrant backs Trump


    By Cody Derespina
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    Jamiel Shaw recalls seeing his 17-year-old son, Jamiel Jr., lying dead in the street where he used to play, gunned down execution-style by one of the “invisible people.”

    When Kathryn Steinle was killed on July 2 in San Francisco by a five-time deportee, the phrase found its way back into the mind of Shaw. He has spent the seven years since his son was killed fighting so-called "sanctuary" policies in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, where police refuse to work with federal authorities when they apprehend illegal aliens who, by law, should be deported. The crimes they subsequently commit -- including murder -- should never happen, Shaw said.

    “We call it getting killed by invisible people, because they aren’t supposed to be here,” Shaw told FoxNews.com.

    Among the hard-working illegal immigrants who come to America for a better life, there are hundreds of thousands of criminals, according to a Department of Homeland Security report. And among those criminals, there are people capable of murder, as the cases of Jamiel Shaw, Kathryn Steinle and several others that have occurred in recent years show.

    Francisco Sanchez, the 45-year-old man who has confessed to Steinle's murder, had been released from jail in March after San Francisco authorities didn’t honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer request. Anti-illegal immigration advocates say it happens all too often, and note sobering statistics, including 2013 figures that show nearly half of the 438,421 illegal aliens who were deported had prior criminal convictions.

    It is impossible to assess the records of those who are not caught, but between 2010 and 2014, some 121 illegal immigrants who had active warrants for lesser crimes were subsequently charged with homicide-related offenses, according to a letter

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent to Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. Some had slipped through the hands of local law enforcement agencies, including ones in the more than 100 cities in 33 states who have official policies of not working with federal immigration agents.

    The man convicted of killing Shaw's son was an illegal immigrant who had been released from jail the day before on prior gun charges. He has since been sentenced to death, and gets no mercy from the father of the boy he killed.

    “I wasn’t gonna let them get away with it,” Shaw said. “You can’t let people think, ‘If you kill my loved ones, I’m gonna forgive you.’”

    Through his grief, Shaw became an advocate for enforcing immigration law, becoming a voice for all those whose loved ones have become the victims of criminals who Shaw believes should never have been in the U.S. Since Steinle's murder, more politicians seem to be paying attention, and lawmakers who once supported sanctuary policies are running from them.

    Nine senators, including Grassley, Sessions and GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz, R-Texas, signed a July 8 letter posing new questions to DHS secretary Jeh Johnson and blaming the administration for recent illegal immigrant-related homicides. They claim that, while the decision to not cooperate with the feds is made by local authorities, Washington could do more to force compliance.

    “Your Department has refused to confront so-called ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions, endangering the public safety and leading to tragedies such as the recent killings of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco, California, and Angelica Martinez in Laredo, Texas,” the letter said. “These deaths are the result of such sanctuary jurisdictions’ dangerous policies, and this Administration’s refusal to do anything to stop them.”

    The illegal immigration debate was renewed even before the Steinle case, when Donald Trump spoke about the issue during the launch of his GOP presidential campaign in June. Trump’s remarks were deemed controversial by some, leading organizations such as ESPN, NASCAR, the PGA and Macys to part ways with the billionaire business mogul.

    But while Trump’s comments may have turned off some corporate partners, the words have given comfort to those like Shaw, who said he initially didn’t intend to vote, but now plans to cast a vote for Trump.

    “I felt happy for the first time,” Shaw said. “When that happened, I felt good. I felt hope. This is the hope that Obama thought he was gonna get. That was false hope.

    “This is a beautiful thing," he continued, adding that after seven years, recent events now mean, "if you’re trying to stop illegal immigration, everybody’s listening.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/08...ands-by-trump/
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    Pedro Espinoza: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    During Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday evening, the president is expected to bring up the case of Jamiel Shaw and Pedro Espinoza.

    Pedro Espinoza was a gang member and undocumented immigrant who in 2012 was convicted of killing Jamiel Shaw Jr., a 17-year-old high-schooler. Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump frequently cited instances of undocumented immigrants committing murders after having been released from jail, using cases like Shaw’s as examples for why the United States needs stricter immigration laws.

    Here’s what you need to know about Pedro Espinoza and the murder of Jamiel Shaw.

    1. He Was Convicted of Shooting Jamiel Shaw Because He Mistook Shaw For a Member of a Rival Gang

    Pedro Espinoza was a part of the 18th Street Gang, a street gang in Los Angeles, California. On the evening of March 2nd, 2008, Shaw was walking home from the mall when he was confronted by Espinoza and asked what gang he belonged to.

    According to the Los Angeles Times, Espinoza thought that Shaw was a Bloods gang member because he was wearing a red backpack. In fact, Shaw was carrying a Spider-Man backpack.

    When Shaw did not respond to Espinoza’s question about what gang he belonged to, he was shot in the stomach and then in the head.


    2. Espinoza Was Undocumented & Had Just Been Released From Jail the Day Before

    Espinoza was brought to the United States from Mexico by his mother when he was an infant. According to the Los Angeles Times, Espinoza’s mother had fled to the U.S. to escape an abusive partner, only to end up with another abusive partner in America.

    The day prior to the murder of Jamiel Shaw, Espinoza was released from the Los Angeles Police Department on prior gun charges, according to Fox News. He was given a four-month early release from jail.

    The Shaw family in 2009 sued the Los Angeles Police Department for releasing Espinoza from jail even though he was undocumented. The lawsuit alleged wrongful death, civil rights violations, and a violation of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act, but that lawsuit ended up being dismissed.


    3. During the Trial, Espinoza’s Attorney Argued That He Should Be Spared the Death Penalty Because He Had a Tough Life

    During the trial of Pedro Espinoza, Espinoza’s attorney, Csaba Palfi, argued that his client should not receive the death penalty, asking the jurors to consider the difficult life that Espinoza had. According to the Los Angeles Times, Palfi cited Espinoza’s abusive home life and said that he was groomed for violence.

    He also said that executing Palfi would serve as nothing more than a Band-Aid on the hemorrhaging wound that is gang violence.

    “We can kill him,” Palfi said. “But it’s not going to stop anything. It’s not going to fix anything.”

    Palfi also pushed for a new trial, citing the fact that the court would not allow in supposed evidence of Shaw legitimately being affiliated with a Los Angeles gang.


    4. He Was Sentenced to Death

    In November 2012, Pedro Espinoza was sentenced to death.

    Right before the sentence was read, Jamiel Shaw’s father said that he has no sympathy for Espinoza.

    “He thought he was big, bad Pedro. But now that it’s time for judgment day, he doesn’t want to be executed,” Shaw said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “These kind of people don’t deserve to walk among us.”

    According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Espinoza is still on death row as of February 2017.


    5. The Murder Took Place in Los Angeles, a ‘Sanctuary City’

    The murder of Jamiel Shaw sparked a nationwide political debate, mainly because the shooting took place in Los Angeles, which is a so-called “sanctuary city.”

    This is an unofficial term that refers to cities that welcome undocumented immigrants and in which police generally do not inquire about a person’s immigration status or enforce federal immigration laws. For 40 years it has been the LAPD’s policy to not ask local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws.

    In the aftermath of the shooting, Shaw’s family supported “Jamiel’s Law,” which was written by Walter Moore, a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles in 2008. The law would deny “sanctuary city” protection to illegal aliens in gangs in Los Angeles. Shaw’s family fought for this to appear on the ballot in 2008, but they were unsuccessful.

    A recent executive order signed by President Trump calls for federal agencies to withhold federal funds from “sanctuary jurisdictions.” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has vowed to fight back against this order, and he disputes the claim that Los Angles does not cooperate with the federal government when it comes to immigration.

    “The idea that we do not cooperate with the federal government is simply at odds with the facts,” the mayor said in a statement in January, according to LA Weekly. “We regularly cooperate with immigration authorities — particularly in cases that involve serious crimes — and always comply with constitutional detainer requests. What we don’t do is ask local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws — and that’s an official LAPD policy that has been enforced for nearly 40 years. That is for everyone’s good, because trust between police and the people they serve is absolutely essential to effective law enforcement.”

    Jamiel Shaw Sr. supported Donald Trump during the presidential election, meeting with Trump and holding a press conference with him in July 2015, one month after Trump launched his campaign and said that many undocumented immigrants coming to the U.S. from Mexico are rapists and murderers.

    “I felt happy for the first time,” Shaw told Fox News when asked about his reaction to Trump’s comments on undocumented immigrants. “When that happened, I felt good. I felt hope. This is the hope that Obama thought he was gonna get. That was false hope.”


    http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/pedro-...-donald-trump/
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    Espinoza's direct appeal before the California Supreme Court can be followed here.

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    Opening brief filed on 12th of December 2018.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...JSMCAgCg%3D%3D

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    A prosecution response was filed on 28th of August 2019.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....JSMCAgCg%3D%3D

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