Jury Deciding If Illegal Alien Cop-Killer To Be Executed
Hey, Geraldo …
Illegal Alien Cop Killer Could Face Death Penalty
By Penny Starr
(CNSNews.com) - A Harris County, Texas, jury is beginning deliberations in the punishment phase of the capital murder trial of an illegal alien who killed a Houston police officer. was convicted May 8 of killing Officer Rodney Johnson after Johnson pulled over Quintero in September 2006.
Quintero had a previous conviction for driving while intoxicated, and he received deferred adjudication for indecency with a child before being deported to his native Mexico in 1999. He slipped back into the country that same year.
In 2006, as Quintero sat handcuffed in the back of Johnson’s police cruiser, he took a gun from his waistband and shot the 12-year police veteran seven times as Johnson was filling out paperwork in the front seat of his vehicle.
Before convicting Quintero, the jury rejected the defense’s claim that a childhood head injury and excessive alcohol consumption since the age of eight led to the killing.
Lead defense attorney Danalynn Recer, who also is the founder and executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center, which represents indigent persons charged with capital crimes in the state courts of Texas and Louisiana, argued that Quintero was “not guilty by reason of insanity.”
“There’s no way Mr. Quintero … logically, rationally decided to shoot Officer Johnson,” Recer said. “It’s a puzzle that we have to put together.”
“Officer Johnson was a hero,” Recer said in her closing remarks. “He was a family man. We have an explanation. It’s just not the quick, easy, bumper-sticker explanation the prosecution wants you to believe.”
Johnson, who was 40 when he was gunned down, was described by colleagues, family and friends as a dedicated father and husband. Before joining the Houston police force, he was a corrections officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and served in the U.S. Army.
He is survived by his wife of seven years, Joslyn, also a police officer, three daughters and two sons.
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What is it with these illegal mexicans and little girls? He deserves the death penalty for what he did to the kid if nothing else.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:10 pmDrop the lib shit for a day Houston, do the right thing.
Grind this piece of human debris up.
Hard to believe Rod Johnsons fellow officers allowed this illegal POS to make it to jail.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:12 pmI’m pretty sure that if they could turn off the cameras in the cruisers the fucker would be dead. You know, shot down after reaching for a weapon. Self-defense. And God knows the bastard deserves it.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:29 pmAnother “no brainer” muddled by the liberal “Oh!he didn’t mean it” bullshit bureaucracy. One shot and you save all that money. Or, like in Iran, there are plenty of cranes in Houston…
May 13th, 2008 at 2:50 pmDo not waste more taxpayer money on this illegal piece of shit. Even if he gets a death sentence, he’ll appeal as many times as he can while being warehoused by us, at our expense.
Turn him over to the family of the officer he murdered, let them do whatever they want to him, as long as a painful death is in there somewhere.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
May 13th, 2008 at 4:07 pmfry him
May 13th, 2008 at 7:46 pm