Thread: Court throws out ex-SA gang member's death sentence

Court throws out ex-SA gang member's death sentence

SAN ANTONIO A former San Antonio street gang member condemned for killing a woman during a robbery is getting a chance for a new sentence.
The death sentence of Gabriel Gonzales has been thrown out by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

The court says defense lawyers at his 1997 trial should have shown jurors evidence that Gonzales was sexually abused as a child -- and the resulting post-traumatic stress disorder followed him into adulthood.

Yesterday's ruling upholds the conviction, but allows Gonzales to have a new sentencing trial.

Louella Hilton was gunned down during the 1994 robbery of the pawnshop she operated with her husband.

Gonzales, one of five charged in the slaying, was identified as the triggerman.

Susan Reed, who's now the Bexar (BEAR) County district attorney, was the presiding judge at trial. The case is now handled by a special prosecutor.

http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=5563564

A life sentence should be the alternative. I have compassion on any victim of child abuse, but it stops when they turn out doing the same thing to others or worse!

Get counseling and try to help others and break the cycle!!! Don't go out and kill an innocent woman and excuse it on a bad childhood.

I am really getting tired of California and Texas, leaning for illegals...kowtowing to them and they are ruining not only their States, but those punk illegals come to other States.....maybe we should cut off all Federal funding to those States!

Originally Posted by moosetracks

I am really getting tired of California and Texas, leaning for illegals...kowtowing to them and they are ruining not only their States, but those punk illegals come to other States.....maybe we should cut off all Federal funding to those States!

We should certainly cut off all funding to "Sanctuary Cities", since they're operating in direct violation of Federal law.

I wonder if the Feds would be so forgiving if the cities and states decided to stop paying the Federal excise tax on gasoline.