DEATH PENALTY SOUGHT AGAINST PALMDALE MAN.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a 20-year-old Palmdale man accused of shooting his girlfriend after an argument, then taking her to a remote desert location and shooting her again, fatally. Adrian Chaparro is charged with murdering 20-year-old Patricia Ayala after the couple argued at a New Year's Eve Party, then again at a friend's house. Chaparro is charged with a special-circumstance allegation of kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. , which made him eligible for the death penalty. ``As with most cases, it's senseless sense·less adj. 1. Lacking sense or meaning; meaningless. 2. Deficient in sense; foolish or stupid. 3. Insensate; unconscious. . There's no reason for it,'' sheriff's Sgt. Paul Mondry said. The decision to seek the death penalty against Chaparro was made after a review of the case by the special circumstance committee of the District Attorney's Office. ``They went over all the factors in the case, and the decision was made by the chair of the committee,'' said Sandi Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
Ayala's body was found Jan. 3 under a bush in the desert near 90th Street West and Avenue L, a day after sheriff's homicide detectives arrested Chaparro on suspicion of murder. Detectives began looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. Ayala after a receiving a tip that she had been killed after getting into a fight with Chaparro at a party. Chaparro has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to have a pretrial pre·tri·al n. A proceeding held before an official trial, especially to clarify points of law and facts. adj. 1. Of or relating to a pretrial. 2. hearing next month in Lancaster Superior Court. Chaparro's attorney, 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 Manuel Martinez, said he was disappointed with prosecutors' decision to seek the death penalty. He wrote a letter to the committee, requesting they seek a term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. ``My position as defense attorney is the death penalty is reserved for the worst of the worst, people who kill more than one person, people who torture and rape before they kill, the serial killer serial killer Forensic psychiatry A person who commits serial murders Prototypic SK White ♂ age 30; 97% are ♂; 80% are sociopaths. See Dahmer, Depraved heart murder, Ice Man. Cf Megan's law, Son of Sam law. ,'' Martinez said. Chaparro, Martinez said, is a young man accused of killing one person. ``He was involved in a dysfunctional relationship with this victim. If in fact he did kill her, it was after a night of drinking and arguing,'' Martinez said. The couple had engaged in a series of arguments that started at a New Year's Eve party, Mondry said. Martinez said they were arguing about whether the other had been talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to other men and women at the party. After leaving the party, the defendant and victim ended up at a friend's house, where Chaparro shot Ayala. He then took her to the desert and shot her again, Mondry said. |
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