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    Joseph Recendez Avila - California Death Row


    Joseph Avila


    Statement of Facts:

    At the time, the strip of Magnolia Avenue near the Galleria at Tyler was a popular spot for cruising. The victims were among 10 men who had come from Orange County in a four-car caravan. They were taking a break from cruising in the parking lot in the early morning of January 12, 1991, when a group of men that included Avila drove up and started arguing about three young women socializing with the Orange County group. The argument seemed to cool down, but Avila went to two different cars and appeared to retrieve something. Moments later he began a knife attack that left one 17-year-old severely wounded and two men dead, each stabbed in the heart.

    The man who survived the attack testified at Avila's trial that neither murder victim -- Robert Navarro Jr., 20, and Raul Moncada, 18 -- had been involved in the earlier confrontation with Avila. None of the Orange County men were armed. Toxicology tests showed no trace of drugs or alcohol on either victim. The victims' relatives testified that Navarro and Moncada stayed away from gangs. Moncada was described as a talented artist preparing for his Mormon mission while Navarro was remembered as a doting uncle who helped his sister financially.

    Avila was sentenced to death in Riverside County on April 29, 1999.

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    June 15, 2009

    The California Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Monday for a former Corona man who killed two men and wounded another in a 1991 knife attack in a Riverside parking lot during a night of cruising.

    The state high court upheld 7-0 the 1999 death penalty of Joseph Avila, 39.

    The justices turned aside Avila's arguments. Among them, he contended a defense attorney was incorrectly relieved from his case; that identification evidence tying him to the slayings was improperly admitted; and that there was insufficient evidence he intended to kill both victims.

    Avila had left for Mexico after the slayings. Police arrested him when he arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on a flight from Mexico in 1995.

    Witnesses said Avila attacked even though it appeared there had been a peaceful ending to a small argument with the victims in the parking lot on the corner of Magnolia Avenue and Banbury Place.

    At the time, the strip of Magnolia Avenue near the Galleria at Tyler was a popular spot for cruising. The victims were among 10 men who had come from Orange County in a four-car caravan.

    They were taking a break from cruising in the parking lot in the early morning of Jan. 12, 1991, when a group of men that included Avila drove up and started arguing about three young women socializing with the Orange County group.

    The argument seemed to cool down, but Avila went to two different cars and appeared to retrieve something. Moments later he began a knife attack that left one 17-year-old severely wounded and two men dead, each stabbed in the heart.

    The man who survived the attack testified at Avila's trial that neither murder victim -- Robert Navarro Jr., 20, and Raul Moncada, 18 -- had been involved in the earlier confrontation with Avila. None of the Orange County men were armed.

    Toxicology tests showed no trace of drugs or alcohol on either victim. The victims' relatives testified that Navarro and Moncada stayed away from gangs.

    Moncada was described as a talented artist preparing for his Mormon mission while Navarro was remembered as a doting uncle who helped his sister financially.

    http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/s...6.3f5759b.html

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    On January 11, 2010, the US Supreme Court denied Avila's certiorari petition.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/09-7488.htm

    On January 21, 2010, Avila filed a habeas petition with the California Supreme Court.

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

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