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    Gerardo Romero - California Death Row

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    Facts of the Crime:

    Sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on May 22, 1988 in the October 9, 1994 murders of Eugene “Temper” Afable and Reynaldo Hau. Afable, 17, was killed by a single bullet fired to the back of his head as he was watching videos at a video store at the intersection of Temple St. and Rampart Blvd. About three hours later, Hau was killed while sitting in his brother-in-law’s car, parked in the driveway of a residence on Bonnie Brae St., where he, his brother-in-law, and three other men were visiting.

    Witnesses testified they saw Romero, or someone who looked like him, leaving the scene of the Afable shooting. The men who were at the Bonnie Brae St. residence said they were robbed by two armed men, and that one of them—apparently Romero—shot Hau while the others fled. The robbers took Hau’s watch along with that of his brother-in-law, Gabriel Cruz. Police said that once they identified Romero as a suspect in the shootings, based on photo identification, they went to the residence he shared with his parents and obtained his consent to a search of his bedroom.

    There they found Cruz’s watch, along with a .380-caliber ammunition clip with two live rounds in it, a plastic video cassette container that had Romero’s name written on it and contained several .380-caliber rounds of ammunition, loose .380- and .22-caliber rounds, and two baseball caps, one with the letters L.A. on the front and the other bearing the words “WS Rockwood.”

    There was evidence that Romero belonged to the Rockwood gang, while Afable belonged to the Temple Street gang. The house on Bonnie Brae St. was in Temple gang territory, and a gang expert testified that both killings were gang-related. The murder weapon was never recovered, but there were .380 casings at both scenes, and an expert testified that both victims were shot with the same gun.

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    On January 16, 2009, Romero filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cal...v00410/435223/

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    Romero's habeas case has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since February 6, 2018.

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

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