Draggingtree Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Arnold Prieto Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 6:00 pm Scheduled Execution Convicted in the murder of three people in San Antonio during a 1995 home robbery. Before Prieto's conviction, prosecutors offered him two 30-year terms in exchange for his testimony against a co-defendant. He declined. http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_scheduled_executions.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 Arnold Prieto Scheduled to Be First to Die in 2015 BY CHASE HOFFBERGER, FRI., JAN. 16, 2015Arnold Prieto On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 12, 1993, Maria Luisa Rodriguez visited the San Antonio home of her parents-in-law Virginia and Rodolfo Rodriguez, only to discover they'd both been stabbed to death, along with the longtime nanny to the Rodriguez children, 90-year-old Paula Moran, who lived with the couple. For months, the police had no leads. But in March 1994, after receiving a series of anonymous tips, two San Antonio Police Department detectives traveled four-and-a-half hours up I-35 to the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, where they met with two local detectives, and took the great-nephew of the murdered couple, 16-year-old Jessie Hernandez, in for questioning, and shortly thereafter arrested his brother Guadalupe Hernandez and their mutual friend Arnold Prieto. After four hours of interrogations, Prieto, then 20, submitted a lengthy statement. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.austinchronicle.com%2Fnews%2F2015-01-16%2Farnold-prieto-scheduled-to-be-first-to-die-in-2015%2F&ei=Tkq9VKuyLMqUNrHpgagM&usg=AFQjCNEprL1qN4PEbicMrvcidzFu0YzLHw&bvm=bv.83829542,d.eXY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 Arnold Prieto Wednesday, January 21, 2015 September 11, 1993: Arnold Prieto, Jessie Hernandez, and Guadalupe Hernandez robbed and killed Rodolfo Hernandez, Virginia Hernandez, and Paula MoranJanuary 26, 1995: a Bexar County grand jury indicted Prieto for murdering threepeople in the same criminal transaction, or for murdering Rodolfo Rodriguezwhile in the course of committing robbery.March 27, 1995: a Bexar County jury convicted Prieto of capital murder. After aseparate punishment proceeding, the same jury sentenced Prieto to death on March30, 1995.December 16, 1998: Prieto's conviction and sentence were affirmed by the Courtof Criminal Appeals on direct appeal. Prieto v. State, No. 72,133 (Tex.Crim.App.1998). Prieto did not appeal the state court's decision to the U.S. SupremeCourt.October 8, 1999: Prieto filed a state habeas application which was denied by theCourt of Criminal Appeals on November 28, 2001. He asserted sixty-six groundsfor relief, including, a claim that the jury's discussion of parole violatedboth his state and federal constitutional rights and that his trial lawyers wereineffective. He also argued his trial attorneys Michael Bernard and JuliePollock failed to properly use three pieces of evidence during the punishment http://www.executionwatch.org/backpage.php?id=180 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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