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Richmond teen gets 82 years to life for gang murder
By Malaika Fraley
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Article Created: 06/13/2008 03:33:19 PM PDT

MARTINEZ — A Richmond teenager was sentenced today to 82 years to life in prison for a gang retaliation murder in North Richmond 2006.

A jury convicted 17-year-old Alexander Balbuena in April of first-degree murder, attempted murder and street terrorism in the death of Jose Segura, 30, of Richmond, on Jan. 17, 2006.

Balbuena, 15 at the time of the killing, was tried as an adult because of the seriousness of the crime.

Prosecutors said Balbuena shot Segura in the head in retaliation for another fatal gang shooting earlier the same day. When he was shot, Segura was sitting in a car with a 19-year-old woman and two small children. The woman suffered a minor leg wound in the incident.

Another man, Juan Herrera, 27, is awaiting a September trial on the same charges. Prosecutor Barry Grove said the men were tried separately because of conflicting statements they made about each other's involvement.
 
Dumb ass. He's got one life, and he'll live it in a cell while his gangster buddies forget he even existed and go about their lives until they too get killed or jailed. Hope it was worth it.
 
Prosecutor Barry Grove said the men were tried separately because of conflicting statements they made about each other's involvement.
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They wouldn't play ball so he tried them both for the same crime and stacked charges. Future shithead politician.
 
2strokeYardSale said:
They wouldn't play ball so he tried them both for the same crime and stacked charges. Future shithead politician.
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Sounds like they were both there, they both had an instrumental part in the murder and when the State tried to get one of them to fold on the other (prolly the driver, or the person who was there and facilitated it but DIDNT actually pull the trigger) ... and they didn't... they said fine, and charged them both.

Nothing wrong with that, nothing "illegal" or unconstitutional and nothing shitty about it.

You have two people committing a crime, two suspects, two cases.
 
82 to life???? Shoot the f@cker and be done with it. No need for to have him rot (might be worse for him to rot though since he's young and might have some purty lips. Might make some nice friends).

He's man enough to live by a gun, he's man enough to die by it.

It's a lot cheaper for us tax payers, too.
 
zyrusp said:
He's man enough to live by a gun, he's man enough to die by it.

It's a lot cheaper for us tax payers, too.
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Who pulls the trigger? Someone will end up with emotional problems from it. That is why the firing squad is not used. Even when it was used only a couple of people got bullets, the rest got blanks and no one knew who had what.
 
zyrusp said:
82 to life???? Shoot the f@cker and be done with it. No need for to have him rot (might be worse for him to rot though since he's young and might have some purty lips. Might make some nice friends).

He's man enough to live by a gun, he's man enough to die by it.

It's a lot cheaper for us tax payers, too.
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And from what I heard on KGO tonight is that the cost to keep someone in prison is generally about 500K/person.
 
Duffil said:
per year? per what?
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I stand corrected. I replayed the said conversation on KGO and the caller actually said "...about 14K/year..." but after further research on my own I found a newspaper article from SD dated 11/06 and it states, "...The average annual cost of housing an inmate in California is $34,000. That figure includes the costs of caring for tens of thousands of inmates with chronic medical and mental health problems..."

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Why can't they just pass the " Eye for an Eye " Law. I bet you crime rates will drop like a rock plus it will cost the taxpayers less money. Just heard something in the news about San Quentin Cells costing $550,000 per cell for the new facility that needs to be built. WTF is wrong with this state?
 
NorCalBusa said:
Another man, Juan Herrera, 27, is awaiting a September trial on the same charges. Prosecutor Barry Grove said the men were tried separately because of conflicting statements they made about each other's involvement.
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How does this work? If they convicted the other guy of doing it, how can his pal get the SAME charges? Is Barry contending that they held the gun together and pulled the trigger? Maybe they both fired and the cops couldn't match the bullets to guns to prints to who held which?

Please clarify if you know. I certainly am not an apologist for murderous gangbangers, but I just don't see how in this case they can both be tried on the same charges for one crime. If they made conflicting statements, and one has been found guilty, wouldn't that mean a jury took one story over another to be true? How can the prosecutor go back now and work the other story's side?
 
CABilly said:
How does this work? If they convicted the other guy of doing it, how can his pal get the SAME charges? Is Barry contending that they held the gun together and pulled the trigger? Maybe they both fired and the cops couldn't match the bullets to guns to prints to who held which?

Please clarify if you know. I certainly am not an apologist for murderous gangbangers, but I just don't see how in this case they can both be tried on the same charges for one crime. If they made conflicting statements, and one has been found guilty, wouldn't that mean a jury took one story over another to be true? How can the prosecutor go back now and work the other story's side?
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If you are driving the vehicle and I shoot someone, we're both guilty of murder (assuming you knew I was going to do it of course). In all likely hood you'd receive a lower sentence if convicted, but an accomplice to a crime is still guilty of the same crime in the eyes of the law.

The way to look at it is, sure, you were driving and didn't shoot him -- but if you weren't driving, I wouldn't have been able to pull the trigger on that drive-by in the first place.

I'm not familiar with this particular case, but that is an example as to how/why.
 
2strokeYardSale said:
That's exactly what the convicted person did.
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Yep, then the next person, then the next two people, then in groups shooting at groups in the streets with innocent people around.

Which is why we need more work to prevent the violence, before we have to sentence kids to life in prison.
 
At that age he's gonna have a prolapsed rectum in a week. I can just visualize the lifers trading tits and cigs for him. In a month or 2 he may be using kool-aid to color his lips.
 
MTechR1 said:
Why can't they just pass the " Eye for an Eye " Law. I bet you crime rates will drop like a rock plus it will cost the taxpayers less money.
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Many times crimes are committed in acts of rage or while on drugs. In those cases it doesnt matter what the penalty is because the person isnt cognitively thinking about his decisions. While I agree with the death penalty, i dont think your ideology would really drop crime rates. However, If you changed the penalty for stealing or other planned robberies to a death sentence, those types of crimes would go down, IMO.
 
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