Image via WikipediaThanks again to the Media Relations staff over at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. This high profile case dates back to 2006 with the murders of Cheryl Green and Christopher Ash of LA.
Judge David Wesley is pictured below. Photo from the Christian Monitor. He presided over this Trial.
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LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles jury today recommended that a 22-year-old gang member be put to death for the racially motivated killing of a teenage girl and the murder of a potential witness to the slaying.
Jonathan Fajardo was convicted on Sept. 9 of the 2006 first-degree murders of Cheryl Green, 14, and Christopher Ash, 25. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Wesley said Fajardo will be formally sentenced on Jan. 6, 2011.
Deputy District Attorneys Gretchen Ford and Karen Brako jointly prosecuted the case.
As to both defendants, jurors found true special circumstance allegations of lying in wait, gang killing and murder of a witness. In the case of Fajardo, jurors additionally found true a special circumstance allegation of multiple murders and that the killing of the teen aged girl was racially motivated.
Jurors, who deliberated less than two days during the guilt phase of the trial, also convicted Fajardo of seven counts of attempted murder and possession of a weapon while in custody.
Four other gang members have been charged. Three are awaiting trial and a fourth, who testified against Fajardo and Aguilar, is due back in Judge Wesley’s court later this week.
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