By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer November 9, 2012 | 2:09 a.m. Last Friday, Judge Ronald Rose upheld the jury’s sentence of death against Pedro “Darky” Espinoza who was convicted in the 2008 first degree murder of Jamiel Shaw. Many observers who had been watching this trial anticipated that this sentence was inevitable because of [...]
By Victoria Kim (Los Angeles Times) | May 24, 2012 A 23-year-old gang member who shot and killed a high school football star he mistook for a rival gangster in 2008 should be put to death, a Los Angeles jury decided Wednesday. Jurors reached the verdict after about a week of testimony in the penalty [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 13, 2012 | 10:49 p.m. Former LAPD detective that was convicted of murder last March was sentence Friday by Judge Robert Perry to 27 years to life. Stephanie Lazarus, 52, has been incarcerated in the Los Angeles County jail since her 2009 arrest for the 1986 murder of [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 9, 2012 | 4:09 p.m. LOS ANGELES – After about 4 hours of deliberations the jury found 18th Street gang member Pedro Espinoza guilty of 1st degree murder in the 2008 killing of Jamiel Shaw Jr. While walking home in the Washington Heights neighborhood, Shaw crossed paths with [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 9, 2012 | 2:04 p.m. LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, closing arguments were presented in the murder trial of Pedro Espinoza, the teenager accused of killing Jamiel Shaw, 17, on March 2, 2008. Espinoza, now 22, was dressed in a dark brown double breasted suit with glasses and [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 7, 2012 | 6:47 p.m. Updated: May 8 | 11:51 a.m. Correction: The defense did call one witness, LAPD officer Javier Hernandez on May 3, 2012. LOS ANGELES — Monday morning defense attorney Csaba Palfi was ready to present his defense in the murder trial of Pedro Espinoza [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 7, 2012 | 4:15 a.m. PST Friday marked the fourth and final day of the prosecution’s case against Pedro Espinoza who is accused of killing Jamiel Shaw, Jr. on March 2, 2008. LAPD Gang Expert testifies Officer Winston Lee of the LAPD testified Friday morning in the trial [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 6, 2012 | 3:38 a.m. PST LOS ANGELES — On Thursday, the murder trial of Pedro Espinoza continued, marking the third day of testimony. Juan Torres was the last witness and under the direct examination of Deputy District Attorney Allyson Ostrowski when trial recessed on Tuesday. Torres resumed [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 2, 2012 | 11:55 p.m. PST Opening Statements On Monday, opening statements in the murder trial of Pedro Espinoza began. Espinoza is on trial for the 2008 killing of Jamiel Shaw Jr., who was a standout football star at Los Angeles High School. On March 2, while walking [...]
KABC | April 27, 2012 ORLANDO, Fla. — The attorney for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager in Florida, is set to reveal in court Friday that a website has raised $200,000 for his client’s defense. His attorney, Mark O’Mara, said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360″ that he [...]
Andrea Kowalchik (The South Los Angeles Report) | April 24, 2012 Pedro Espinoza sat silently in court wearing a brown suit, glasses, and sporting a fresh crew-cut. He kept his eyes focused on his lawyers, asking them questions periodically. Directly behind him in the first row, sat the Shaw family. While the defense questioned potential [...]
By Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer April 3, 2012 | 8:35 a.m. PST It’s been over a year since Daniel “Monster” Silva, 18, was gunned down on the corner of Alsace Ave and Roseland, but his memorial still stands. While sitting in a car, an assailant walked up and shot Silva on the morning of [...]
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