JURY VIEWS VIDEO OF SANCHEZ RAPES.Byline: Grace Lee Staff Writer Prosecutors seeking the death penalty against convicted Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. rapist and killer Vincent Sanchez showed jurors videotapes Thursday that Sanchez took of his rapes of three women. Jurors, who had been shown parts of the tapes earlier in his months-long trial for killing a Moorpark College Moorpark College is a California-state funded community college located on a 134 acre (542,000 m²) property reclining on a hill in Moorpark, a town in Ventura County, California. student during a rape attempt, cringed as they viewed the attacks. The video screen was angled so that only jurors could see the tapes, but the television blared the sound of victims - one of them just 15 - crying out as they were raped. ``All of these lives were changed by the violence, the evil, the perversive per·ver·sion n. 1. a. The act of perverting. b. The state of being perverted. 2. A sexual practice or act considered abnormal or deviant. behavior of Vincent Henry Sanchez,'' said prosecutor Dee Corona. ``The defendant is not worthy of your mercy.'' Sanchez, 32, faces the death penalty in the 2001 slaying of Megan Barroso, whose bullet-riddled rental car was found near the 23 Freeway after she was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point on her way home from a July Fourth party. Her decomposed de·com·pose v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To separate into components or basic elements. 2. To cause to rot. v.intr. 1. body was found a month later in a remote ravine. Before a jury convicted him both of murdering Barroso and of the special circumstances special circumstances n. in criminal cases, particularly homicides, actions of the accused or the situation under which the crime was committed for which state statutes allow or require imposition of a more severe punishment. of kidnap and attempted rape, he had already faced life in prison. The unemployed handyman admitted to raping or attempting to rape nearly a dozen women between 1996 and 2001. Thursday, Corona urged the jury of five women and seven men to sentence Sanchez to death. ``Vincent Sanchez forfeited his right to live when he killed Megan Barroso in pursuit of his perversion Perversion See also Bestiality. bondage and domination (B & D) practices with whips, chains, etc. for sexual pleasure. [Western Cult.: Misc. ,'' she said. ``She was just another victim in a long line of victims.'' Defense attorneys argued throughout the penalty phase that Sanchez possessed redeeming qualities that should spare him execution. They also sought to depict an emotionally crippled man, damaged by an alcoholic, abusive father. Neil Quinn urged the jury to consider that Sanchez had been drinking and was emotionally distraught when he sideswiped Megan Barroso's Sunfire as she drove home in the early hours of July 5. For Sanchez to be sentenced to death, the jury must unanimously agree that his crimes outweigh any mitigating factors that could have driven him to the killing. Grace Lee, (805) 662-6757 grace.lee(at)dailynews.com |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion