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    Miguel Angel Magallon - California




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    Sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on October 15, 2009 for killing an off-duty Los Angeles County police captain during a robbery attempt. He shot 53-year-old Michael Sparkes nine times with an AK-47 assault rifle on August 10, 2004 in South Los Angeles as Sparkes biked to work. Magallon's DNA was found on the gun. Sparkes managed to shoot and wound Magallon before dying at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he supervised the security force. The getaway driver, 24-year-old Orvis Anthony of Gardena, got 50 years to life.

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    Jury recommends death for LA County cop-killer


    LOS ANGELES — A jury has recommended the death penalty for a man who killed an off-duty Los Angeles County police captain during a 2004 robbery.

    The Los Angeles panel issued its recommendation Friday for 26-year-old Miguel Magallon of Carson. He'll be sentenced in October.

    Prosecutors say Magallon and another man tried to rob Capt. Michael Sparkes near Carson as he biked to work. Sparkes, 53, was shot nine times with an AK-47 by Magallon, whose DNA was found on the assault weapon.

    Magallon was convicted of attempted robbery and murder.

    He apologized for the killing, saying during the trial that he was drinking and didn't know Sparkes was a police officer.

    Orvis Anthony, 24, of Gardena is awaiting trial.

    http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stori...;%20the%20west

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    October 15, 2009

    Man Gets Death for Killing LA Cop

    Los Angeles (myFOXla.com) - A man has been sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Los Angeles County police captain during a robbery attempt.

    Miguel Magallon was sentenced Thursday in Los Angeles. The 26-year-old Carson man was convicted in July of first-degree murder and attempted robbery.

    Magallon apologized during the penalty phase of his trial.

    Prosecutors say he shot 53-year-old Michael Sparkes nine times with an AK-47 assault rifle in 2004 in South Los Angeles as Sparkes biked to work. Magallon's DNA was found on the gun.

    Sparkes managed to shoot and wound Magallon before dying at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he supervised the security force.

    The getaway driver, 24-year-old Orvis Anthony of Gardena, got 50 years to life last month.

    http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/loca...Cop_2009001015

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    Counsel was appointed to represent Magallon on direct appeal on November 14, 2012.

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    California death row inmate dies of unknown causes

    By Megan Cassidy
    San Francisco Chronicle

    An inmate on Califoria’s death row died of unknown causes Saturday morning, after being found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison, officials said Monday.

    Officials began lifesaving procedures on 35-year-old Miguel Angel Magallon just after finding him at 6:17 a.m. He was pronounced dead 32 minutes later.

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/ar...s-13786795.php
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    San Quentin Death Row Inmate Died From Drug Overdose, Autopsy Reveals

    By Ted Goldberg
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    A San Quentin inmate convicted of murdering a law enforcement officer died in April after overdosing on heroin, the Marin County coroner's office said Monday. It marks at least the third fatal overdose of a California death row inmate over a five-month span.

    Miguel Magallon was found unresponsive in his cell around 6:15 a.m. on April 20. State prison officials reportedly pronounced him dead about 30 minutes later, but did not indicate how the 35-year-old inmate had died.

    An autopsy determined his cause of death to be "acute heroin intoxication," said Roger Fielding, a chief deputy in the county coroner's office.

    Fielding said that Magallon had "mild cardiomegaly," commonly referred to as an enlarged heart, and that methamphetamine, codeine and cannabis were also found in his body, factors that likely contributed significantly to his death.

    "This case is another example of the way drug use in the prison really mirrors the trends in the wider community," said Dr. Matt Willis, Marin County's public health officer, whose paramedics are called to San Quentin when inmates are having suspected overdoses.

    In December, his office reported a spike in overdose-related calls from the prison.

    "We're seeing more and more other substances, like meth, at play in opioid-overdose deaths statewide," he said. "As complex as the opioid epidemic already was, it's getting more complex. What we're calling the opioid epidemic now is more often a problem of combinations of drugs, in terms of overdose deaths."

    A state prison spokeswoman said the agency continues to investigate how Magallon obtained illegal drugs.

    Magallon was sentenced to death in 2009 for the 2004 murder of Michael Sparkes Sr., a Los Angeles County police officer.

    The inmate's cause of death was announced just days after state lawmakers approved a sweeping plan to battle substance abuse in the state's prisons.

    Herminio Serna and Joseph Perez, both condemned inmates who'd been convicted of murders, died at San Quentin in early December due to overdoses.

    In May, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed, as part of his revised budget, spending close to $400 million over three years to help inmates suffering from addiction.

    For years, California has spent tens of millions of dollars to stop the flow of drugs into state lockups. Newsom's plan instead calls for shifting resources toward curbing demand by using medication-assisted treatment to help prisoners fight addiction.

    That plan faced pushback from the California Legislative Analyst's Office and state Assembly staffers, who suggested the proposal be scaled back. Ultimately, though, the governor's full plan was approved by the Legislature.

    Forty inmates died from overdoses in California's state prison facilities in 2017, the most recent data available, marking that year's fourth-most-common cause of death among state prisoners, according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials. That same year, at least 750 inmates overdosed but survived after medical intervention.

    In 2018, 997 prisoners were treated for drug or alcohol overdoses, CDCR reported.

    https://www.kqed.org/news/11755411/s...report-reveals
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