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    Jerrod Murray Found Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity in 2012 OK Slaying of Generro Sanchez


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    Death penalty sought: Asher murder case remanded for preliminary hearing

    Prosecutors, in detailing the “heinous” homicide of a college student in Pottawatomie County, are seeking the death penalty against an Asher man whose case is being remanded back for a preliminary hearing.

    Jerrod Murray, 18, is charged with first-degree murder, deliberate intent, in the Dec. 6 death of Generro Sanchez, 18, a student from Stuart, Okla. who attended East Central University in Ada.

    Murray, the victim’s classmate at ECU, last month waived his right to a preliminary hearing before the death penalty imposition was filed.

    Murray appeared in Pottawatomie County District Court during Wednesday’s felony docket, where his attorney asked for a preliminary hearing, a court proceeding where evidence is presented and a judge determines if there’s enough evidence for a case to proceed to trial.

    District Judge John Canavan sent Murray’s case back to the special district judges for a preliminary hearing that is now scheduled May 10.

    District Attorney Richard Smothermon objected to the hearing, but said they were able to get a quick court date.

    “Justice isn’t going to be delayed,” Smothermon said.

    According to information outlined in the Bill of Particulars, prosecutors believe Murray should be punished by death.

    According to the bill, Sanchez, on Dec. 6, agreed to drive Murray to Walmart, but once inside the vehicle, without justification or excuse, Murray pulled a .40 caliber firearm and told Sanchez to drive five miles north of Asher.

    “While Generro Sanchez was driving and begging Jerrod Murray not to take his life, the defendant shot Generro Sanchez twice in the head,” the bill reads.

    As a result of the shooting, the vehicle left the roadway and crashed into a tree, at which time Murray went around to the driver's side of the vehicle and pulled Sanchez “onto the ground and shot Generro Sanchez a third time in the head,” the document shows.

    Prosecutors allege Murray pushed the victim’s body down into a ditch, covered him with leaves and left him there to die.

    Both the suspect and victim were freshmen and reportedly lived in the dorms on the ECU campus.

    Smothermon, at the time charges were filed, said this case was “a random, senseless murder just to gratify the defendant.”

    According to arrest affidavits that are part of this case, Murray, who was arrested the day of the homicide, allegedly admitted to investigators that he’d been planning to kill someone for about three weeks and targeted Sanchez, who he only knew by his first name.

    The victim’s body was found in a ditch along Substation Road, which is located south of U.S. 177 and SH 59.

    The affidavit shows Murray admitted that he made a plan to kill someone about three weeks before the homicide but didn’t know who he’d kill or when, but knew he would do it around Substation Road because he knew that area.

    During an interview with investigators, Undersheriff Travis Palmer asked Murray what he thought a person should get for killing someone.

    The arrest affidavit shows Murray said, “Death — an eye for an eye.”

    Murray remains jailed without bond in the Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center.

    http://www.news-star.com/article/201...NEWS/130509962
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    Jerrod Murray ruled fit for trial in homicide case

    Murray accused of stalking, killing Generro Sanchez

    POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY, Okla. — An Oklahoma man charged with murder has been ruled fit for trial.

    A judge ruled Jerrod Murray was competent after a mental health evaluation. Murray made no comments during his competency hearing this week.

    Murray is charged with the homicide of 18-year-old Generro Sanchez, who was found dead in a ditch near the town of Asher in Pottawatomie County last December.

    Investigators said Murray stalked Sanchez and killed him because he wanted to know what it felt like to take another man’s life.

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    Hearing Delayed For ECU Student Accused Of Killing Classmate

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    SHAWNEE, Oklahoma - A hearing has been delayed for a former university student who police say killed a classmate in Oklahoma to see how it would feel.

    The Ada News
    reports a hearing for 20-year-old Jerrod Murray is now set for late October.

    Murray was due in Pottawatomie County District Court on Wednesday, when he could have entered a new plea. But prosecutors requested a delay so a psychologist can examine him. His attorney has indicated he will raise insanity as a defense.

    http://www.news9.com/story/26224917/...ling-classmate
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    DA wants “guilty but insane” verdicts in Oklahoma

    By Lorne Fultonberg
    KFOR News

    SHAWNEE, Okla. - The Pottawatomie County district attorney was relieved, to say the least, when a judge ordered an admitted killer back to a mental facility for the next year.

    But, District Attorney Richard Smothermon acknowledges that feeling of relief will only be temporary.

    Jerrod Murray, acquitted of murder because a judge deemed him insane, will be up for another hearing on his competency next year.

    "He told two doctors that if he were released he would not guarantee he wouldn't do this again, and then he told people in his cell that if released he would do it again and target the victim's family," Smothermon said. "That tells me he should never be released."

    Murray, 21, admitted to killing fellow Eastern Central University student Generro Sanchez in Dec. 2013, when both were 18 years old.

    Murray offered Sanchez $20 to take him to Wal-Mart but, once in the car, Murray held Sanchez at gunpoint, forcing him to drive to a rural road while Sanchez reportedly pleaded for his life.

    Murray shot Sanchez in the head three times, killing him.

    There was talk he could walk free, just months after he was acquitted, after one psychiatrist wrote in his evaluation that Murray "does not presently meet the statutory criteria as being presently mental ill. While his index offense was of a violent nature, given that his mental condition is stable, he is not considered to be a present danger to the public."

    "He's literally getting away with murder," Smothermon said. "And, that's shocking to me."

    Now, Smothermon wants to change state law, so a judge can hand down a verdict of "guilty but insane," something he said other states have already done.

    Convicts would begin their sentence in a state mental hospital.

    Once deemed competent, the convict would serve out the rest of their term in a state prison.

    "It gives accountability, and it gives justice, and it gives a certainty to the family," he said. "For the foreseeable future, every year, we're going to rip the scab off of her, and I can't even imagine how horrific it is to each year face the possibility that the man who killed your son could get out of jail."

    NewsChannel 4 could not reach Murray's attorney for comment.

    But, criminal defense attorney David McKenzie said he has a problem with a "guilty but insane" verdict.

    "It goes against what we stand for and our due process of law," he said. "We're punishing somebody for something they can't help, because they're mentally ill."

    McKenzie said he understands the closure the word "guilty" can give to the family of a victim or the general public, but he maintains putting the mentally ill in jail is fundamentally wrong.

    "If you're so insane that you don't know what you're doing, then you're being punished for something that you ought not be responsible for," he said. "We ought not to put them in prison. We need to get them help."

    McKenzie notes that "not guilty by insanity" is rarely used in cases across the United States.

    Further, he said a psychiatrist doesn't just "open the doors" for someone who has found not guilty by reason of insanity.

    A judge must approve the decision.

    http://kfor.com/2015/11/06/da-wants-...s-in-oklahoma/
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    Confessed killer’s bid for freedom denied


    By Kim Morava
    The Shawnee News-Star

    A confessed killer deemed not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2012 killing of his college classmate in Asher tried once again — and even testified on his behalf — to be released from a state mental facility, but that request has been denied.

    Jerrod Murray, now 23, will remain in custody at a state facility for further mental health treatment.

    Pottawatomie County District Attorney Richard Smothermon says he will fight any chance Murray has of ever being released.

    “Jerrod Murray is a frightening individual. If released, he will kill again, of this I have no doubt,” Smothermon said after the ruling.

    A hearing was first held in Craig County because Murray is being treated at the Oklahoma Forensic Center, which is located in that county. Murray’s motion asked the court to consider his release from that facility to less restrictive care. But that motion, and another heard in Pottawatomie County as a result of that first hearing, were both denied. Pottawatomie County District Judge John Canavan, who is familiar with the case, ruled that Murray remains a threat to society.

    Murray was charged with first-degree murder, deliberate intent, in the December 2012 shooting death of Generro Sanchez, 18, from Stuart.

    At the time of the killing, Murray and Sanchez were both freshmen at East Central University in Ada, with court affidavits in the case revealing Murray told investigators that he had planned to kill someone for weeks.

    Murray, who allegedly told investigators he wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone, confessed to the killing hours after his arrest in 2012.

    Judge Canavan’s recent ruling noted that Murray makes progress while on medications, but he regresses once he goes off those medications and becomes worse, with the judge noting that Murray seems to make his own determination of whether or not he needs medications.

    “Other statements he made that concern the Court were that he doesn’t know when he might hurt someone again, which chills the court to the extent that it’s a possibility he contemplates in his own mind hurting someone else,” the ruling reads.

    Further, the judge noted his concern that he believes Murray, if given the discretion, would likely stop taking his medications.

    And of the 200 patients at the Oklahoma Forensic Center, a doctor testified that Murray is the most dangerous.

    In addition, Canavan noted concern in the fact that officials found a weapon — a five-inch knife blade — in Murray’s possession the Friday before the court hearing.

    And finally, in reviewing the case, Canavan notes, “He’s still mentally ill, and in the opinion of some of the physicians, he’s worse than he was before when he gets off his meds, and when you’re the most dangerous patient out of 200, I find -- the Court finds that he is a danger to himself and others, that he’s in the least restrictive setting that I’m willing to give him at this time and would deny any motion on his part to remove him from where he is at, at the present time,” the ruling concludes.

    Murray’s latest bid for freedom wasn’t the first since he was initially found not guilty of first-degree murder by reason of insanity. A hearing was held in 2016 after two doctors submitted conflicting reports on his mental status, but he was committed “indefinitely” to the state mental hospital for treatment.

    Smothermon has said he feels Murray will always be a danger to society.

    A chilling taped interrogation was played in open court during Murray’s preliminary hearing early on in the case. In that interview, Murray, by his own words, confessed hours after his arrest to Pottawatomie County Undersheriff Travis Palmer that he shot and killed Sanchez.

    “I shot him in the head twice,” Murray said in that video. “Three shots were fired...one missed.”

    The defendant explained during that 2012 interview that he knew the victim lived in the dorms at ECU in Ada and they met each other in the room of a mutual friend, where they played video games.

    Murray allegedly offered Sanchez $20 gas money for a ride from the dorms to the Walmart in Ada.

    When they pulled into the parking lot, Murray pulled a gun on Sanchez and forced him to drive to Asher, where the tape reveals him saying he planned to take him out into the country and kill him.

    The shooting occurred on Substation Road in south Pottawatomie County, which prompted the victim’s pickup to crash into a tree. The victim’s body was found in a ditch along that road, located south of U.S. 177 and SH 59. As deputies worked that scene, Palmer found Murray walking in the area of U.S. 177 near Sing Road and made the arrest.

    The Asher case prompted a change in Oklahoma’s state law that became effective Nov. 1, 2016.

    In Sept. 2016, Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law one of the most significant criminal justice bills from the 2016 legislative session. Senate Bill 1214 allows for juries to find criminal defendants both insane and guilty of a crime.

    https://www.news-star.com/news/20170...freedom-denied
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

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