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    Tommy Adrian Trujeque - California

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    Tommy Adrian Trujeque


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    Trujeque was sentenced to death on November 9, 1999 in Los Angeles County for a murder committed on June 2, 1986.

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    Trujeque's direct appeal has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since December 10, 2013.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S083594

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    Does anybody know the details of the murder he committed. I checked on line but couldn't find any info....thanks.

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    No chance. I searched hours for a bit more information.
    No murder can be so cruel that there are not still useful imbeciles who do gloss over the murderer and apologize.

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    On March 3, 2015, oral argument was held in Trujeque's direct appeal before the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S083594

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    California high court overturns killer's death penalty

    SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a Los Angeles man’s death penalty while upholding his first-degree murder conviction.

    The court ruled that prosecutors introduced a previous murder conviction that was improperly obtained during the penalty phase of Tommy Adrian Trujeque’s 1999 trial.

    The jury sentenced Trujeque to death for killing his cousin’s boyfriend in 1986. He believed the boyfriend was abusing his cousin. He was also convicted of second-degree murder for helping to kill another man after a gambling dispute.

    Prosecutors told jurors that the two murders, plus another one Trujeque was convicted of committing in 1969, showed he was an unrepentant killer who deserved the death penalty.

    A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that jurors shouldn’t have been told of the 1969 murder of a beer deliveryman, which Trujeque committed when he was a teen. Trujeque was convicted as an adult of second-degree murder in the death, for the 1969 death of a beer deliveryman he robbed. That conviction was obtained after a juvenile court judge previously found him guilty of manslaughter.

    The Supreme Court said that conviction was invalid because it punished Trujeque twice for a single crime, known as double jeopardy.

    The court ordered the Los Angeles County district attorney to hold another trial to determine Trujeque’s sentence for killing his cousin’s boyfriend in 1986.

    The district attorney’s office didn’t immediately respond to an email inquiry.

    http://napavalleyregister.com/ap/sta...a71d6cc68.html

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    Man Sentenced to 86 Years to Life for 1986 Murder

    By City News Service

    A former death row inmate who sent a letter to then-Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti in which he admitted fatally stabbing two men who he said “deserved what they got” was sentenced Oct. 9 to 86 years to life in state prison.

    Tommy Adrian Trujeque’s sentence was handed down four months after the California Supreme Court upheld his first-degree murder conviction for the June 21, 1986, stabbing of his cousin’s boyfriend, Max Facundo, in South Gate, but overturned his death sentence and reversed his conviction for the other killing.

    The panel unanimously found in its May 28 ruling that Trujeque was “improperly charged and subsequently convicted” of the Jan. 23, 1987, stabbing death of Raul Luis Apodaca at an East Los Angeles upholstery shop after the case against him was dismissed at least twice.

    The panel also set aside the special circumstance findings that Trujeque, now 62, committed multiple murders and had a prior second-degree murder conviction.

    The Supreme Court justices ruled that Trujeque’s prior murder conviction from 1971 for a third killing — the defendant was 16 at the time of the killing of Allen Rothenberg — was obtained in adult court “in violation of the double jeopardy clause” after he admitted an involuntary manslaughter charge in juvenile court.

    Trujeque was charged with the killings of Facundo and Apodaca after he spoke with investigators while in custody in San Diego County more than 10 years after the killings.

    In a 1998 letter that was sent to Garcetti, the defendant admitted he murdered both Apodaca and Facundo while “fully aware of all my mental faculties” and urged the prosecution to seek the death penalty against him.

    The Supreme Court justices noted in their ruling that Trujeque’s letter also stated that “both of those cowards deserved what they got: death and an early expiration in life, to say the least!” and that if he “had the opportunity to do it over I would cut off their heads and send ‘em both to their family!”

    After the Supreme Court’s decision, prosecutors opted not to retry Trujeque for Apodaca’s killing, according to Sarah Ardalani of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

    http://egpnews.com/2015/10/man-sente...r-1986-murder/

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