Death Row Inmate Jason Eugene Bush will die in Arizona!

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/08/05  3 Responses »
Aug 052011
 
Death Row Inmate Jason Eugene Bush will die in Arizona!

Washington State prosecutors appear satisfied with the sentence given to convicted double murderer Jason Eugene Bush and won’t try to extradite him to Washington state to stand trial for two more killings attributed to him. Bush, convicted triggerman in the home invasion murders of 9 year old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul, was also charged in Washington with the 1997 stabbing death of a homeless man in Wenatchee Washington and the shooting death of an 18-year-old white supremacist from East Wenatchee in July and September of 2007. Bush was positively identified by eyewitnesses as being the actor in the 1997 murders for which he was charged. Bush is currently on Arizona’s death row under two death sentences plus 78 MORE

Gaxiola escapes the death penalty for murdering 9 year old Brisenia Flores & father Raul

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/07/31  3 Responses »
Jul 312011
 
Gaxiola escapes the death penalty for murdering 9 year old Brisenia Flores & father Raul

After a jury earlier could not decide on the appropriate punishment for Albert Gaxiola for the murder of 9 year old Brisenia Flores in May of 2009, Judge John S. Leonardo, during a hearing Friday, granted a prosecution motion withdrawing the death notice during a hearing Friday morning. Deputy County Attorney Rick Unklesbay told Leonardo that the Homicide Panel in his office has reviewed all the pros and cons of continuing to seek the death penalty for Brisenias murder, and with the full understanding and support of victim and mother Gina Gonzalez, the prosecution was taking the death penalty off the table. Sentencing is set for August 15 at 10:30 in Judge Leonardos courtroom on the two counts of first MORE

Prosecution – Gaxiola was the orchestrator of the Arivaca murders

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/06/07  10 Responses »
Jun 072011
 
Prosecution - Gaxiola was the orchestrator of the Arivaca murders

The first day of the capitol murder trial of Albert Gaxiola is in the books and it gives us a glimpse of which way his defense team is going to try and get him acquitted of the same charges that sent Minuteman leader Shawna Forde and shooter Jason Eugene “Gunny” Bush to Arizona’s death row. For full and unique coverage of the trial, check out Dave Rickers website. Good reporting despite the lack of use of spellcheck. Opening statements were today and the prosecution led off telling the jury that although Albert Robert Gaxiola may not have pulled the trigger, he was the one responsible for recruiting Minuteman Shawna Forde and her lapdog Jason Eugene “Gunny” Bush because he, Gaxiola, MORE

Prelims underway for the trial of Albert Gaxiola

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/05/27  35 Responses »
May 272011
 
Prelims underway for the trial of Albert Gaxiola

Two years and a week after the murders of 9 year old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul, by convicted Minuteman Shawna Forde and Jason Eugene Bush, the trial of the third defendant is scheduled to begin. Albert Gaxiola faces the same charges as Forde and Bush were convicted of in the Arivaca Arizona home invasion robbery. 225 prospective jurors were summoned to the Pima County courthouse to file out questionnaires containing 39 questions concerning their suitability to be called as jurors in the case. Next week, attorneys for both sides will meet with the Judge to review the questionnaires and decide who should be excluded from initial questioning. Opening statements should begin on June 7. Motions have been flying MORE

Minuteman Shawna Forde given max of 65 on remaining charges

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/25  4 Responses »
Apr 252011
 
Minuteman Shawna Forde given max of 65 on remaining charges

Judge John S. Leonardo sentenced convicted double murderer and Minuteman Shawna Forde to an additional 65 years on the remaining charges she was convicted of  in February. She was sentenced to death for the murders of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul on May 30, 2009. Forde got the 65 years on attempted murder, burglary, aggravated assault and robbery charges. All sentences but one are to be served consecutively to the other including the death sentence for the murders. Consecutive means that the total time will be served as opposed to concurrent where time for all offenses is served in one block of time. Here’s the breakdown of Judge Leonardo’s decision. Count 3:  Burglary in the first degree. 15 MORE

Arivaca Minuteman Murders – Two down One to go – Jason Bush received Death Penalty

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/06  11 Responses »
Apr 062011
 
Arivaca Minuteman Murders - Two down One to go - Jason Bush received Death Penalty

Not that there was any doubt, but Jason Eugene Bush, Minuteman Shawna Fordes trigger man in the 2009 Arivaca home invasion murders, received the death penalty today by a Pima County jury for the murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul. In what has been a very swift yet bizarre trial, on March 25, jurors convicted Bush of two counts of first degree murder, attempted first-degree murder of Gina Marie Gonzalez, one count of burglary in the first-degree; one count of aggravated assault, serious physical injury; one count of aggravated assault, deadly weapon/dangerous instrument; one count of armed robbery; and one count of aggravated armed robbery. (The same charges as Minuteman Shawna Forde was convicted of.) Bizarre in MORE

Prosecution/Defense rest in Jason Bush Murder Trial – Witness alleges threats by Laine Lawless

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/03/23  7 Responses »
Mar 232011
 
Prosecution/Defense rest in Jason Bush Murder Trial - Witness alleges threats by Laine Lawless

After a day that saw one of the female jurors dismissed by the judge for talking about the case outside of court, the prosecution rested it’s case and the defense followed without presenting any witnesses or testimony in the capital murder trial of Jason Eugene Bush. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin at 10:30 in the morning in before Judge John S. Leonardo. Bush confession seals the deal Det. Juan Carlos Navarro, a homicide detective for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department took the stand today to recount the confession Bush gave him shortly after his arrest in Meadview Arizona a couple of weeks after the murders in Arivaca Arizona. The confession by Bush pretty much sums up and confirms, convicted MORE

Convicted double murderer Shawna Fordes fate is in the hands of the jurors now

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/02/18  1 Response »
Feb 182011
 
Convicted double murderer Shawna Fordes fate is in the hands of the jurors now

Finally, closing arguments are over and all that remains is the decision of 12 of her “peers” whether convicted double murderer and Minuteman Shawna Forde goes to Arizona’s death row or Judge John S. Leonardo sentences her to life in prison, for masterminding the murders of 9 yea old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul. UPDATE Jurors have gone home for the weekend without returning a verdict. They will return Tuesday morning to continue deliberations In their closing statements, Defense attorny’s Eric Larsen and Jill Thorpe asked jurors to consider the Forde’s “moral culpability” for the crimes. comparing her actions to those of the shooter, Jason Eugene “Gunny” Bush, whose trial will follow Fordes on March 1st. Thorpe finally conceded MORE

Jury finds convicted murderer Shawna Forde “Death Penalty Eligible”

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/02/15  3 Responses »
Feb 152011
 
Jury finds convicted murderer Shawna Forde "Death Penalty Eligible"

Jurors returned to court this morning to listen to prosecutor Rick Unklesbay describe why convicted murderer and Minuteman Shawna Forde should receive the death penalty. Monday, the same jurors found Forde guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, the attempted first-degree murder of Gina Gonzalez, the mother of Brisenia Flores and wife of Raul Flores, one count of aggravated assault with serious physical injury; one count of burglary in the first-degree; one count of aggravated assault, deadly weapon/dangerous instrument; one count of armed robbery; and one count of aggravated armed robbery. Gina Gonzalez arrived in court this morning once again, along with her daughter who by luck, was not in the home the night Forde and company murdered her father MORE

Closing Arguments in the Shawna Forde murder trial and the jury is out

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/02/12  1 Response »
Feb 122011
 
Closing Arguments in the Shawna Forde murder trial and the jury is out

The ghost of playwright William Shakesphere was present in the courtroom on Thursday as defense attorney Eric Larsen quoted Act 5 Scene 5 of Macbeth in describing Shawna Fordes life as “A tale? told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.” And apt description but coming from her defense attorney? From there, he tried to deflect the blame from Forde and put it on Albert Gaxiolas former girlfriend Georgina Sue Moraga, claiming she was the short, fat white woman in the Flores home on the morning of May 30, 2009.

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