Thread: TX-Carla Ramos indicted on new charges

Carla Ramos indicted on new charges

May 7, 2009 - 9:29 PM
By Laura B. Martinez

Carla Ramos, a Brownsville mother acquitted of capital murder, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that she did not reapply for admission to the United States.

Ramos, 27, an undocumented immigrant, was indicted on April 28 on a count of illegal re-entry. She waived her formal arraignment Wednesday and entered a not guilty plea. Jury selection for her trial is to begin on July 2.

According to the criminal complaint filed against her, U.S. Border Patrol agents on Jan. 26, 2006 while conducting routine jail checks in a Cameron County jail found that the incarcerated Ramos was in the country illegally. Ramos, who as a child moved to Brownsville from Mexico, had previously been deported in May 2002 and had not applied for permission to re-enter the United States, the complaint said.

Ramos had been incarcerated at a Cameron County jail on the capital murder charge at the time of the federal checks.

She has other pending legal issues before state District Judge Elia Cornejo-Lopez. The judge has yet to rule on a motion filed by Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos to reconsider the acquittal verdict and declare Ramos' trial a mistrial.

No court date had been set for a hearing on the motion, court officials said Thursday. When one is set, Ramos will have to be present. After her acquittal, federal agents immediately took her into custody on the immigration charge. She remains in jail without bond.

A jury found Ramos not guilty of capital murder on April 8; however, Villalobos wants the court to revisit the not guilty verdict based on a poll of jurors after they were released from duty. The poll indicated it was a 10-2 vote to convict Ramos of capital murder.

Ramos was charged, along with two men, in the January 2006 strangulation of 76-year-old Carmen Jacobson. She was killed inside her home on West Jefferson Street during a robbery.

Ramos was the last of the suspects to be tried in Jacobson's murder. Co-defendants Alfonso Granados Lucas, 36, and Jose Luis Gutierrez, 27, each pleaded guilty last year to a lesser charge of murder.

Ramos maintained her innocence throughout her trial and said she did not know about the murder. However, several days into her trial she tried to enter a no contest plea to a lesser charge of murder. Cornejo-Lopez denied her request.

During the capital murder trial, Ramos admitted to being in the United States illegally.

In November, Granados Lucas was sentenced to life in prison. Gutierrez was also sentenced in November to 10 years in prison as part of a plea agreement in which he agreed to testify against Ramos.

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During the capital murder trial, Ramos admitted to being in the United States illegally.

The must have had a lot of evidence against her otherwise, she would not have testified.

Dixie

Originally Posted by Dixie

During the capital murder trial, Ramos admitted to being in the United States illegally.

The must have had a lot of evidence against her otherwise, she would not have testified.

Dixie

I'm surprised Obama or Janet hasn't run down there and let her free!
They could give her a temp work pass too...