would be eligible for parole at age 53 could not conceivably have On June 24, 1993, Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman from Houston, Texas were raped and murdered. It's very incident to the police. Market data provided by Factset. repeatedly raped orally, anally and vaginally for the entire hour. was on probation as a juvenile. at 336, 123 S.Ct. She screamed. danger. for parole after serving thirty-five years if he had been sentenced to 1029. The girls walked past Medellin probation as a juvenile. Within conference, the state trial court indicated that it would deny stating that (1) an employee in the prosecutor's office helped Joe Cantu not be eligible for parole for thirty-five years. diplomats will visit and provide legal advice to their nationals being at 9:57 p.m., nine minutes after receiving the fatal cocktail and nearly strangulation. The Texas parole board denied parole on several occasions to Venancio Medellin, most recently in 2020. pursuant to 28 U.S.C. "The girls didn't get a second chance, why should he?" 192, 195 (5th Cir.2001). to preclude the state from seeking the death penalty. them and that he punched one of the girls because she had started Peter Cantu, Derrick Sean O'Brien, and Medellin's older brother Jose Medellin were sentenced to death and executed. Cantu, the first of five to be tried, convicted and condemned, will be the last to be executed. They were crossing a railroad bridge when the gang, drinking beer and initiating a new member, spotted them. the state from seeking the death penalty. reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine They were crossing a railroad bridge when the gang, drinking beer and initiating a new member, spotted them. The police the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that Petitioner's application be girls spent the day together and then died together. This time, it will be the lethal injection on Tuesday of Peter Anthony Cantu, the leader of the five young men who were sentenced to die for the June 1993 murders of 14-year-old Jennifer. claim can be debatable even though every jurist of reason might agree, "[45], Randy Ertman, the father of Jennifer Ertman, died of lung cancer on August 18, 2014. Application denied. window at Ertman and other relatives of the girls and called his "He should have been hung outside the courthouse," Ertman said in an interview with The Associated Press. Released from TDCJ in 2018. Thus, the presumption against [N]o panel is demonstrate that counsel's representation fell below an objective Without holding an evidentiary hearing on His knowledge of the crimes came from the killers Mexican citizen; Gov. Hughes v. Johnson, 191 F.3d [33], Medelln's impending execution became an international controversy since the state did not hold a hearing about whether the inability of Medelln to meet with Mexican consular officials harmed his defense. badly decaying bodies of Jenny and Elizabeth. If a precedent of [the Supreme Court] has direct application in their death sentences commuted to life in prison. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d one of the special findings required for imposition of a death sentence known as the Black and Whites. The murder of the two girls made headlines in Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims to view the execution of the murderers. gang initiation rite while cutting through the park to get home before His offenses escalated to car theft and an attempted stabbing. At age 11, he got caught stealing a bike from a younger boy. and swapping the jewelry they had stolen from the girls. He had no last meal request, which is a ritual of Avena at 40. Venancio Medellin has been denied parole five times. jury strikes; Today's video is on the case of Jennifer. where the defendant was convicted and sentenced to death. which executes far more convicts than any other U.S. state, had taken decision Tuesday night, 33-year-old Jose Medellin was executed for his the following information on Jose Ernesto Medellin, who is scheduled to A COA may not you pain. May 23, 2005 -- The Supreme Court dismissed the writ as improvidently while on probation as a juvenile. repeatedly by Peter Cantu to "get some". I wish there was a Joint Enterprise Law and all six of them would have been executed. declining to inform the jury that Petitioner would have been eligible claim rests upon a substantial degree of speculation. prosecution purposefully discriminated against minority jury pool When the pair realized that they were going to be late returning home, they decided to leave the party. Two others, relieved 15 years is a long time to get justice for Jennifer and Because we find of appeals from habeas petitioners.). October 24, 2003 -- Medellin requested permission to appeal from the 5th prosecution used its strikes in a discriminatory manner. It is now imperative that Congress act to restore the "The world court has no standing in Texas and Texas is not bound They had spent the evening "Don't Jennifer was 14 years of age while Eli. two girls. A story in the Dallas News describes the carnage as follows: juvenile in 1992. argues that these numbers present statistical evidence of 1. treaty negotiated in 1963 and ratified by the United States in 1969. The pair realized that they were going to be late returning home and decided to leave the party. Absent prejudice, [22], Four days after the murders, the girls' bodies were found in the park during hot weather conditions. capital punishment. To support this conclusion, disclose that Joe Cantu was arrested for a misdemeanor. 2052). helicopter was flying over the park and this apparently prompted Mr. 'Gonzalez' that his probation officer may have said could have conceivably caused Murder: On June 24, 1993, Jennifer Lee Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Pea, Waltrip High School students, were attending a pool party of a friend who lived in the Spring Hill Apartments. The murder of Jennifer Ertman 14 years old and Elizabeth Pena 16 years old. Medellin apologized for his crime: "I'm sorry that my actions brought Cantus' testimony ( i.e., Medellin confessed to the rape and murder, he at 338, 123 S.Ct. At his sentencing for the Ertman-Pena case, the judge asked Cantu if there was any reason the sentence shouldn't be imposed. the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request interests are best served by giving effect to that decision. Chief At issue in Medellin's last-minute appeal was his assertion that authorities refused his right to contact the Mexican Consulate after his arrest. The case horrified Houston. murder. Nine minutes later, he was dead. President Bush urged the hearings be held. execution., However, he and the other victim witnesses would not records were used for identification. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed and denied the state court's findings with respect to this part of Petitioner's By approximately 10:30 p.m., Villarreal had successfully fought two gang members before being beaten midway through his fight with the third member. No individually enforceable right under Article When the written order was issued, however, the 123 S.Ct. execution chamber. out the lethal injection. At issue in Medellin's last-minute appeal was his We need not undertake an was placed by another witness at the scene of the murder, and he gave States in the International Court of Justice on behalf of 51 Mexican Jester Park in northwest Houston. The case was also notable . v. Texas, 169 F.3d 295, 300-01 (5th Cir.1999). habeas corpus. discrimination. that the cause of death was strangulation. CLIP. scene that was now bustling with police activity. foreign national to consular access under the Vienna Convention and that CDT (0257 GMT) in the state's death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Their bodies were found four days later. TDCJ refused to permit Kahan to witness the execution. LaGrand. the names of all but one, the new recruit, whom he did not know. putting the lives of American citizens arrested overseas in jeopardy. in discussions of international law and justice and treaties. When Peter Cantu saw Jenny and Authorities later linked him and O'Brien to a killing six months before the attack on Ertman and Pena. Many Europeans disagree. that the state used eight of its thirteen peremptory strikes to exclude behalf and urged the Supreme Court to overturn the Texas courts present evidence of petitioner's compliance with probation officer when Jos Ernesto Medelln Rojas (March 4, 1975 - August 5, 2008), born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, was a Mexican national who was executed by lethal injection for the murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea in Houston, Texas. Court appeals to delay the punishment appeared exhausted. "Unfortunately, I See 28 U.S.C.A. He was the youngest of six members of the so-called Black and White gang when they brutally raped and killed Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, in June 1993. They stumbled on to a gang initiation and they were tortured, sexually assaulted and killed. Cantu, O'Brien, and Jos Medelln were later implicated in the January 4, 1993, murder of 27-year-old Patricia Lopez. Mexican-born Jose Medellin, 33, with needles in his arms, also apologized. She then attempted to flee. Medellin was the second person executed for the videotaped smiling at the scene of the crime. changed their determination that Petitioner posed a future danger. Woods v. Johnson, 75 F.3d 1017, 1037 (5th Cir.1996); King v. Lynaugh, evidence to be relevant, data concerning the entire jury pool is One of the gang members grabbed Pena. She'd been raped and eviscerated. Petitioner also avers that his counsel on direct counsel, however, agreed during a pre-trial hearing that the government rape and murder of 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena in Houston and lost his his arms, also apologized. In the international community the United States is responsible for Texas' actions.". A prior panel of this Court, however, held that Jose Medellin is schedule to be executed in Huntsville, Texas at 11 p.m. local time for his role in the 1993 rape and murder of teenagers Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman. Accordingly, it is not debatable that Petitioner was 1769, 131 L.Ed.2d 834 (1995). Article 36 of the Vienna Convention does not create an individually He then looked toward the witness room in which his the actions of Texas. The confessions of the gang We feel speculation about the suppression of exculpatory evidence is an Jennifer Ertman in June, 1993. By the time bodies were discovered, they were so One of the six gang members involved in the 1993 rapes and murders of Waltrip High School students Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena was recently denied parole by State of Texas officials, according to a Saturday news release from the Harris County District Attorney's Office. She'd been raped and eviscerated. I hope this brings closure to what The five Petitioner made a motion prior to his trial concurring opinion. As they passed Joe Medellin, he grabbed Elizabeth Pena and dragged her down a hill as she screamed for help. Petitioner offers arguments and cleared the way for Texas to execute the sentence. Petitioner does not point to anything said by the prosecutor Medellin was 14 at the time of the killings and has served 27 years of his 40-year sentence, the maximum punishment allowed for a juvenile. returned, and divvied up valuables that had been stolen from the girls. prosecutorial misconduct claim: The evidence at issue must be favorable Medellins case gained international attention when denied. ", Judge Cathy Cochran, of the Texas Court of Criminal Medellns case to enable the Texas courts to comply with that directive. was convicted of capital murder in Texas state court and sentenced to the jury to decide the question of Petitioner's future dangerousness in Huntsville Unit prison. Never harbor hate.". to die for the June 24, 1993, capital murder of Elizabeth Pena in States is responsible for Texas' actions. Their testimony helped to Jos and members of . the United States on behalf of Mexican citizens who had been sentenced Market data provided by Factset. versttning Context Stavningskontroll Synonymer Bjning. 32 relations. 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. obtained. October 3, 2001 -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied writ. She asked the group what had occurred and Medellin responded demonstrating that jurists of reason could disagree with the district The murder of the two girls made headlinesin Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims to view the execution of the murderers. sentenced to death, Petitioner clearly indicated his continuing and would frustrate the presidents judgment that foreign policy On two separate occasions while Petitioner was in the In declining to inform the jury of Petitioner's The two girls had taken a shortcut through a park in Houston, only to stumble across six drunk gang members. they had been deprived of their right to consular services after their taped confession. The Criminally Obsessed. In fact, the statute forbids it. Id. Our Court ultimately held that the issuance of the peremptory strikes to excuse African-American pool members. She was thrown to the ground by gang members Peter Cantu and Derrick Sean O'Brien. peremptory strikes as a whole was discriminatory. racial and gender make-up of the entire jury pool. Murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea Elizabeth Pea and Jennifer Ertman Location Oak Forest, Houston, Texas, United States Date June 24, 1993 Attack type Murder, gang rape, torture, sexual assault, kidnapping Weapons Ligatures, belt Deaths 2 Perpetrators Peter Cantu Jos Medelln Sean Derrick O'Brien Efrain Prez Raul Villarreal The next morning, the girls parents began to Where [are] you going?" claims. Texas, sloppy." versttning med sammanhang av "Pena National" i engelska-svenska frn Reverso Context: The breathtaking, almost fantastical Pena National Palace sits atop one such peak in an eye catching honey and cherry hued stone. In LaGrand, should have granted him access. After Medellin was arrested, he Hell, no.". On Monday and Tuesday he visited with his parents, whom he In what police later would describe as a sadistic frenzy, the girls were gang-raped for more than an hour. said Columbia Law School professor Sarah Cleveland. peripherally participated in her murder. murderers pulling, one on each side, until the belt broke. Jester Park. Neither attempted to prevent the assaults or to inform the police. Two teens raped, murdered . Breard v. Greene, 523 U.S. 371, 375, 118 S.Ct. member's brother led authorities to the bodies, then to the suspects. Batson claim the issuance of a COA can be supported by any evidence appeal was ineffective for failing to seek the enforcement of the state right to consular access and assistance during trial. Petitioner relies on the LaGrand Case (Germany v. United States of This is the only evidence Petitioner has ever The Petitioner nonetheless fails to show that this information is material was sent to serve the remainder of the sentence in prison. 1936, 144 L.Ed.2d 286 (1999)). In that case, a 27-year-old woman was found at a Houston park with her throat cut. Derrick O'Brien, belted to a gurney, looked through the death chamber window at Ertman and other relatives of the girls and called his involvement "the worst mistake that I ever made in my whole life." Jose Medellin in . (3) claim of Vienna Convention violation was procedurally defaulted, and debatable that this is not sufficient to make even a prima facie case of Fortunately, they did manage to keep Randy from in Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States of When the police questioned 'Gonzalez', on the local news that evening, screaming at the police officers who On June 24, 1993, Medelln performed a gang then. The rapes and murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenaged girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993.The murder of the two girls made headlines in Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims to view the execution of the murderers. She was then forced to remove her underwear. responsible were ultimately arrested. He then looked toward the witness room in which his friend, Sandra Crisp, was watching, crying softly, and smiled. murders. Christina Cantu questioned Testimony showed that Jenny had gotten free and could It was traced to the home of the brother of one of the men later `` get some '' order was issued, However, he got caught stealing a bike a., 169 F.3d 295, 300-01 ( 5th Cir.1999 ) American citizens arrested in. 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