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CAMARILLO MAN GETS 30 YEARS FOR MURDER DURING CRIME SPREE.


Byline: Michael Coit Daily News Staff Writer

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 for most of a 90-minute sentencing hearing Friday, a Camarillo man was led from Ventura Superior Court to serve a 30-year prison term for firing a handgun at a home and killing a Moorpark man during a December crime spree.

Superior Court Judge Charles Campbell Charles Campbell can refer to several people:
  • Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy, aristocrat
  • Charles C. Campbell, US Army general and FORSCOM commander
  • Charles Rodman Campbell, executed convict
 sentenced Mike Castro to a state prison term that was two years shy of the maximum sentence despite arguments by Castro's attorney for the minimum term.

Deputy Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was  Bob Willey said Castro had shown remorse Remorse
See also Regret.

Ayenbite of Inwit (Remorse of Conscience)

Middle English version of medieval moral treatise, c. 1340. [Br. Lit.
 and admitted his guilt rather than face a trial.

The prosecutor countered that Castro, 20, should be sentenced to a lengthy prison term because of the serious nature of the crimes. He received 15 years to life for murder, 10 years for the use of the gun and five years for shooting at an occupied home.

Four defendants described as Camarillo gang members, including Castro, were charged with various crimes related to the Dec. 3 crime spree, which ended with the fatal shooting of Jesus Manjarrez at a Moorpark intersection.

Castro admitted that he squeezed the trigger at the house and squeezed the trigger in the shooting of Manjarrez, who was sitting inside his car while it was stopped at Spring Road and High Street. Witnesses said the shooting was unprovoked and Castro did not know the victim, said Deputy District Attorney Matt Hardy
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Castro worked for a moving company. Hardy said Castro stole the .38-caliber handgun from a family whom the company was moving two days before the crime spree.

``He stole the gun two nights before and that night, when he went out with his gang friends to party, he went and got the gun to show off and prove how bad he was to his friends,'' Hardy said.

Rather than face trial, a tearful Castro pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder and shooting at a Camarillo home.

Two of the other defendants are awaiting trial and a male juvenile was sentenced to five months in Juvenile Hall after admitting to being an accessory accessory, in criminal law, a person who, though not present at the commission of a crime, becomes a participator in the crime either before or after the fact of commission.  to the charged crimes.

Sheriff's officials said the crime spree began with a disturbance at a Taco Bell Taco Bell Corp., a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., is a Mexican-style quick service restaurant chain based in Irvine, California, United States. The restaurant has locations primarily in the United States and Canada, but also operates outlets in several other markets.  in Camarillo about 12:30 a.m. Shots then were fired at the Camarillo home from a four-door sedan Sedan (sədäN`), town (1990 pop. 22,407), Ardennes dept., NE France, on the Meuse River. A noted textile center since the 16th cent., Sedan also has metal and brewing industries. The town became part of French crown lands in 1642.  matching the description of the vehicle involved in the Taco Bell incident.

The Sheriff's Department then received the report of a teen-age male being robbed in front of the Somis Market.

The fatal shooting at Spring and High was reported to the Sheriff's Department at 1:07 a.m. Sheriff's officials tracked down the suspects in the various crimes after a brief pursuit about 1:30 a.m.

THE CASE AT A GLANCE

Here is the status of defendants charged in a Dec. 3 crime spree that culminated in the shooting death of a Moorpark man.

Mike Castro, 20, of Camarillo, pleaded guilty to murder and shooting at an occupied dwelling and was sentenced Friday to 30 years in state prison.

Art Contreras has pleaded not guilty to charges of shooting at a home, armed robbery and second-degree murder. Contreras, 19, faces trial in Ventura Superior Court on May 13.

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  • José Filho Duarte, a Brazilian footballer
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 has pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge and faces trial in Ventura Superior Court on April 22. Duarte, 18, was a juvenile when the crime occurred and was ordered to face trial as an adult.

A 17-year-old male was sentenced to five months in Juvenile Hall in February after a judge suspended sus·pend  
v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends

v.tr.
1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school.
 a sentence to the California Youth Authority. The juvenile admitted to being an accessory to shooting at a home, to robbery, and to murder.

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