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    Alfredo Rolando Prieto - California (Executed in Virginia)




    Photos provided by former classmate Stephanie Jetté.




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    Sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on June 18, 1992 for the September 2, 1990 murder of Yvette Woodruff. He is also a denizen of Virginia's death row.

    For more on his Virginia case, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...rieto+virginia

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    DNA hit links death row inmate to Riverside County cold case

    Authorities using DNA evidence have linked a 44-year-old convicted murderer and rapist on death row to a 1990 double homicide in Riverside County.

    Alfredo Rolando Prieto, who is already on California's death row and who recently received the death penalty for a murder in Virginia, was linked to the slayings of Stacey Siegrist, 19, and Anthony Gianuzzi, 21, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday.

    On May 5, 1990, a jogger discovered the victims’ bodies along a dirt power line access road west of the intersection of Canal and Alta streets in Rubidoux. The two were dating and had not been seen for nearly two days. Both had been shot once in the side of their heads and once in the back of their necks. Siegrist had also been sexually assaulted.

    Earlier this year, Riverside County’s cold case unit submitted evidence from the crime scene to a private laboratory. On Oct. 4, the lab linked the DNA to Prieto. The department said it delayed notifying the public to ensure Virginia jurists were not influenced during the penalty phase of Prieto’s trial there.

    Prieto has been linked to nine murders and four sexual assaults, including the 1992 murder and rape of 15-year-old Yvette Woodruff of Ontario, the crimes for which he was sentenced to death. He is appealing his California death sentence.

    In 2005, preliminary DNA tests implicated him in three 1988 Virginia slayings. Prosecutors from Fairfax County, Va., extradited Prieto from California to face trial for two of those murders.

    Prieto has operated with three other accomplices in the past, and authorities believe the Rubidoux murders involved one or two additional suspects.

    Riverside County sheriff’s homicide investigators are asking anyone with information about the case to call (951) 955-2777.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...cold-case.html


    No worries, Virginia has him. Save the phone call!

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    On October 20, 2005, Prieto filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cal...v07566/179170/

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    Va. high court denies serial killer's death penalty appeal

    The Virginia Supreme Court has denied the death penalty appeal of a serial killer for the slayings of two George Washington University students in 1988.

    The unanimous decision Friday clears the way for Alfredo R. Prieto to be executed in Virginia for the deaths of college sweethearts Rachael Raver and Warren Fulton III.

    Prieto appealed his conviction and two death penalty sentences based on dozens of claims of trial and sentencing errors.

    Justices said they found no reason to overturn the conviction or set aside the death sentence.

    Prieto was already awaiting execution in California for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl when a DNA sample connected him to the rape and murder of Raver and the slaying of Fulton in Reston.

    http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/va-h...penalty-appeal

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    Death row inmate pursues intellectual disability claim

    Lawyers for a Virginia death row inmate who claims he is intellectually disabled will argue their case in federal court Wednesday, hoping to take advantage of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the strict use of IQ test score cutoffs.

    A hearing is set before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson for Alfredo R. Prieto, 48, who was convicted of a 1988 rape and double murder in Fairfax County. He was also sentenced to death in California for another rape and murder.

    Last month, the justices threw out the use of IQ scores of 70 or below as a requirement that must be met by a defendant hoping to be ruled ineligible for the death penalty because of intellectual disability.

    The high court held that states had to take into account the standard error of measurement when considering IQ test scores, which are imprecise and should be read as a range on either side of the score.

    In a 2002 Virginia case, the high court barred the execution of persons with intellectual disability, formerly called mental retardation.

    “Alfredo Prieto may be one of the only people who stands to benefit from a retroactive application of the new rule,” his lawyers wrote in a brief last week. “He faces the ultimate punishment, and the new rule... calls into question whether his execution violates federal constitutional law.”

    In response to the 2002 decision, Florida and Virginia required IQ test cutoff scores of 70 or below as one of several conditions that must be met by a defendant hoping to be ruled ineligible for the death penalty.

    In his federal appeal, Prieto is arguing a number of issues including his intellectual disability claim. Hudson earlier gave Prieto’s lawyers permission to file a supplemental brief once the justices ruled in the Florida case.

    His lawyers contend that Prieto’s IQ has been measured at 66. When the standard error of measurement is applied for that particular IQ test, his score would fall within the range of 63 and 71, they said.

    Last month – before the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Florida case – the Virginia Attorney General’s Office said the state presented evidence that Prieto’s score was 73, above the cutoff of 70.

    The attorney general’s office argued, among other issues, that the test on which he scored a 66 was not an approved examination.

    Cary B. Bowen, one of Prieto’s lawyers, said the matter is among others that will be brought up before Hudson at the hearing. Prieto’s lawyers argue the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision should be applied retroactively in his case.

    In papers filed Monday, the attorney general’s office again asked Hudson to dismiss Prieto’s claim on the grounds that it has been “procedurally defaulted” and that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Florida case should not be applied retroactively.

    The attorney general’s office also wrote that Prieto was able to exercise his full right to claim intellectual disability during his 2008 trial. An expert at that time testified for Pietro that his IQ was 66 and that “IQ scores have a range.”

    A state expert testified that Prieto was not intellectually disabled as defined under Virginia law and that his IQ score was 73. The state expert said he did consider the standard error of measure but it did not lead him to a different score because, “’You don’t simply subtract points in one direction.’”

    The state expert also said Prieto did not suffer from deficits in adaptive behavior – such as not being able to cope with some daily living challenges – another requirement for demonstrating intellectual disability.

    Unlike the Florida case, the attorney general’s office told Hudson that lawyers for Prieto presented evidence of intellectual disability, but it was rejected by jurors.

    Prieto, was convicted in 2008 of the capital murders of Rachel A. Raver and Warren H. Fulton III, both 22 and both last seen alive on Dec. 4, 1988, as they were leaving a restaurant in Washington, D.C.

    Raver’s partially nude body was discovered in a field just south of the Dulles Toll Road in Fairfax County two days later. She had been raped, and she and Fulton died from gunshot wounds to the back fired by the same handgun.

    In 2005, a cold hit matched DNA found in the Virginia slayings with Prieto, who was on California’s death row for a 1990 rape and murder. Published reports said he is also a suspect in other murders in California.

    He was extradited to Fairfax County in 2006. His first trial ended with a mistrial and he was convicted in 2008.

    http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/st...7a43b2370.html
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    Virginia inmate asks court to toss death sentence

    A judge said Wednesday that he will rule in about three weeks on a Virginia death row inmate's claim that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in another case precludes his execution.

    Alfredo R. Prieto's lawyer, Miriam Airington, said she believes the case is the first in the nation to test whether the May 27 ruling in a Florida capital punishment case can be applied retroactively to a narrow category of other inmates awaiting execution. After an hour-long hearing, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson said he wanted to take time to carefully consider the issue.

    Prieto was on California's death row for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl when a DNA sample connected him to the 1988 slayings of George Washington University students Rachel Raver and Warren Fulton III in Reston. He also was sentenced to death for the Virginia crimes.

    Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that a rigid cutoff on IQ test scores cannot be used to determine whether someone is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution. Prieto, whose lawyers claimed he was intellectually disabled during the sentencing phase of his trial, claims he cannot be executed because Virginia's law is nearly identical to the statute at issue in the Florida case. Both establish an IQ score of 70 as the intellectual disability threshold.

    Airington said Prieto may be the only inmate — or certainly one of only a few — already sentenced to death and potentially affected by the Hall v. Florida ruling.

    "Mr. Prieto, we believe, falls into a class of people who under Hall are not eligible for the death penalty," Airington told Hudson. "It goes to the fundamental fairness of sentencing."

    Alice Armstrong of the Virginia attorney general's office argued that the Hall decision should not be applied retroactively because it only involved procedural rules for enforcing the landmark 2002 ruling that barred the death penalty for mentally disabled inmates.

    She also said that, unlike the Florida defendant, Prieto was allowed to present evidence of "adaptive behavior" along with IQ test scores. Experts for the state and Prieto sharply disagreed at sentencing on whether his management of routine tasks suggested he was mentally disabled.

    "What actually happened makes clear there is no prejudice to Mr. Prieto in this case," Armstrong said.

    She said the notion that a new hearing would conclude that Prieto is ineligible for the death penalty is "grossly speculative."

    Airington acknowledged that Virginia defendants claiming intellectual disability can present evidence of adaptive behavior "but they still have to overcome the IQ test."

    http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/0...#storylink=cpy
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    California killer faces Virginia execution

    By David G. Savage
    The Los Angeles Times

    For the first time in nearly a decade, a California murderer who was sentenced to death is facing execution - but in Virginia.

    Alfredo Prieto, a serial rapist and killer, was convicted of three murders in Southern California and northern Virginia and has been identified as the prime suspect in six more.

    He is due to be put to death in two weeks at a state prison in Jarratt, Va.

    "At this time, we are not aware of any litigation by Mr. Prieto challenging his Virginia convictions or sentence," said Michael Kelly, a spokesman for the Virginia attorney general. "The commonwealth is preparing to carry out the sentence on Oct. 1."

    Prieto, 49, a native of El Salvador, moved with his family to the Los Angeles area when he was a teenager. He became a member of the Pomona Northside gang.

    In 1990, he was arrested, charged and convicted of raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl in a field near Ontario.

    Prieto and two other men had kidnapped and assaulted three women, two of whom survived stabbings and testified against Prieto. A jury sentenced him to death.

    Prosecutors opted not to pursue further charges even though they had DNA and ballistics evidence that made Prieto the prime suspect in four murders and two rapes near Riverside.

    A federal judge in California put a moratorium on executions in 2006 because of doubts about the drugs used in lethal injections.

    Prieto languished on California's death row for more than a decade while his appeals churned through the courts.

    But when his DNA was entered into a national database in 2005, Virginia authorities said it matched evidence collected from crime scenes of several unsolved rapes and homicides.

    In one case, two 22-year-old women disappeared after they left a holiday party at a Washington restaurant in December 1988. Their bodies were found in a field off the highway that leads to Dulles International Airport.

    One had been shot in the back, and the other had been raped and killed. The DNA test on the sample taken from the rape victim's body pointed to Prieto.

    DNA also identified Prieto as the suspect who raped and shot a young woman in Arlington, Va., earlier that year. A ballistic test separately linked him to the shooting death of a 27-year-old man in the fall of 1989, prosecutors said.

    Police theorized Prieto fled back to California after his suspected crime rampage in northern Virginia.

    In 2005, in response to a request from prosecutors, California authorities agreed to send Prieto back to Virginia to stand trial for two homicides in Fairfax County.

    The county’s chief prosecutor said he pursued murder charges against Prieto “because he’ll never get the death penalty in California. I think it was time to bring him to justice for his horrible crimes.”

    Prieto's first prosecution in Virginia ended in mistrial when a single juror refused to deliberate.

    But in a retrial, Prieto was convicted of murdering the young couple near Dulles airport, and in 2010 he was sentenced to die. The state Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence, and the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his appeals in May.

    Prieto launched his own lawsuit contending that it was cruel and unusual punishment to hold him in solitary confinement. An attorney in Richmond said he had filed a motion seeking to stop his execution so his appeals can proceed.

    The two states could not differ more on carrying out death sentences.

    California has 747 inmates condemned to die but has carried out just 13 executions in the last 40 years, and none since 2006.

    By contrast, Virginia has only eight inmates on death row but has carried out 110 executions since 1976.

    When the “Beltway sniper” was arrested for 10 killings in the Washington area in 2002, federal authorities opted to send him to Virginia for prosecution even though most of the shootings took place in suburban Maryland.

    John Allen Muhammad was convicted in 2003 and executed in Virginia six years later.

    Kent Scheidegger, a lawyer for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento and a supporter of the death penalty, says the difference in the two states can be explained by judges, not prosecutors and juries.

    “It’s the willingness of the judges to work through the appeals and to get it done,” he said.

    http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1.../p2p-84447600/

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    Thank you Stephanie, Lisa Barajas really wants to see these photos. Dede Raver

    The recent attempt to delay Oct. 1st really upset people close to the victims because they were claiming that Prieto is mentally retarded, we know he is intelligent. This is why he keeps losing his appeals, hope we have the same luck with SCOTUS as early as tomorrow. Thank you for remembering our loved ones. Dede Raver

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    Dede, I would love to give Lisa this yearbook, or at least the pages with Yvette in it. I'd also love to give her a huge hug; I have been praying for her for years! Please ask her to find me on Facebook! I think our kids go to the same school, actually.

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    Supreme Court asked to block execution of Alfredo Prieto, Virginia inmate

    Attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution of a convicted serial killer in Virginia who claims that he’s intellectually disabled.

    Virginia plans to execute Alfredo Prieto at 9 p.m. Thursday after Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe rejected the El Salvador native’s attempt to delay his death sentence this week.

    Prieto was on death row in California for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl when DNA evidence linked him to the 1988 slaying of a young couple in Virginia.

    http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/20...n-of-virginia/
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