What heinous crime has Andy Rodriguez of Coral Gables been accused of?”
As the 17-year-old charged in the fatal stabbing of a Coral Gables High School classmate had his case appear in court Wednesday, students at the school grappled with the loss. On the high school campus at 450 Bird Rd. students wore black and placed flowers in the courtyard where Juan Carlos Rivera, 17, was stabbed to death. The morning announcements offered condolences for Rivera, showing a picture of the slain teen with the message, “RIP Juan Carlos Rivera.” History teacher and Coral Gables alumnus Daniel Blackmon told a morning class: “Yesterday was the worst day in Gables history.” On the Facebook page R.I.P. Juan Carlos Rivera, students who knew him, and others who didn’t, offered their condolences. Meanwhile, Circuit Judge Orlando Prescott ordered accused killer, Andy Rodriguez, 17, held in detention until Oct. 6. Rodriguez was charged late Tuesday night with second-degree murder in the killing of Rivera. In court Wednesday, prosecutors announced they would take the case to th
CA: Lifers seek court allies in fight with state for parole Lifers seek court allies in fight with state for parole Judges have overruled governor By Andy Furillo December 10, 2007 Frustrated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his parole board, more California life-term prisoners are turning to the courts for another shot at freedom – and winning enough cases to put the state on edge. In the past two years, at least seven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment have been freed on court-issued writs of habeas corpus, after the governor or his appointees on the Board of Parole Hearings had denied them release dates. About two dozen more have persuaded judges to order the governor or the board to review their decisions. Those numbers pale compared with the thousands of lifers eligible for release dates whose parole applications have been rejected – 99.5 percent of them last year. But the state believes some judges are overstepping their authority, and the state attorney general’s office ha
