TEEN SLAYING VICTIM CALLED THE AGGRESSOR SELF-DEFENSE IS CLAIMED.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer Raul Aguirre, a 17-year-old Hoover High School Hoover High School may refer to any of the following:
Former Latino gang member Jimmy Orozco, now 21, testified that Aguirre came to his aid the day of the fight, throwing one of Orozco's opponents down, pursuing him across a street and assaulting him again. ``We established that my client was thrown to the ground, that my client was chased, that my client was pushed into a tree and that my client was attacked,'' said attorney Mark Geragos Mark John Geragos (born October 5 1957) is an American criminal defense attorney best known for defending pop-star Michael Jackson, actress Winona Ryder, Gary Condit, and Susan McDougal, who was involved in the Whitewater scandal. , whose client Karen Terteryan is accused of stabbing Aguirre four times. Terteryan, 21, and Rafael Gevorgyan, 18 - both of North Hollywood - are charged with street-gang murder, attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. and street terrorism in Aguirre's death. The two defendants, still minors at the time of Aguirre's death, are being tried as adults. Defense attorneys contend Terteryan and Gevorgyan acted in self-defense (Law) in protection of self, - it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of the assailiant. - Wharton. See also: Self-defense that day and were victims of simmering hatred between Latinos and Armenians. Prosecutors argue that Aguirre was beaten and fatally stabbed when he intervened in a fight between Orozco and the defendants. Orozco admits he was a Latino gang member at the time of the fight. Terteryan wears a gang tattoo tattoo, the marking of the skin with punctures into which pigment is rubbed. The word originates from the Tahitian tattau [to mark]. The term is sometimes extended to scarification, which consists of skin incisions into which irritants may be rubbed to produce , and Gevorgyan is described as a gang wannabe. Aguirre was not a gang member but worked with Orozco at 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. . Orozco testified it was an exchange of gang signals between him and Terteryan that initiated the violence. The former gang member admitted he still felt guilty about the fight in which Aguirre died. ``I still do, to this time,'' Orozco told prosecutor Darrell Mavis. ``Maybe if I wasn't there, this wouldn't have happened.'' Witness testimony has been inconsistent about the day's events, with others painting a picture of Aguirre as a rescuer and others as an aggressor. Student Cole Sherman, who witnessed Aguirre's stabbing from as close as 11 feet away as he was passing by on a bicycle, has testified that Aguirre was on his hands and knees when Terteryan came from behind and began stabbing him in the back. A third defendant, Anait Msryan, has pleaded guilty to charges of attempted murder in a plea bargain plea bargain n. in criminal procedure, a negotiation between the defendant and his attorney on one side and the prosecutor on the other, in which the defendant agrees to plead "guilty" or "no contest" to some crimes, in return for reduction of the severity of the reached with prosecutors. Msryan, 14 at the time of Aguirre's slaying, has agreed to testify against her two co-defendants in exchange for a seven-year sentence in the California Youth Authority. If convicted, Terteryan faces life in prison without parole, and Gevorgyan faces a possible term of 25 years to life. Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com |
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