STREET OUTLAWS: FASTEST IN AMERICA premieres Monday, October 19 at 8p on Discovery. Cantus execution was the third connected with the case. 52(a). Randy Ertman appeared on the local news that evening, screaming at the police officers who were struggling to hold him back, "Does she have blond hair? "I think they should file some more charges," Cathy Lopez, Patricia Lopez's mother-in-law, said. A little knowledge of routine vehicle maintenance may have kept. Appellant also gave two confessions. You know what damage was done to their bodies. What did he say? THE COURT: Overruled. Point of error eight is overruled. For more information about Border Patrol's Head of the Class Program or Youth of the Year Scholarship, please contact Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Pete Cantu at 956-289-5686. They decided to follow the railroad tracks that passed by T.C. 2934, 106 L.Ed.2d 256 (1989), with respect to mitigating evidence. In a thorough and well-reasoned memorandum and order, the district court denied habeas relief and, sua sponte, declined to issue a certificate of appealability on any of the issues raised by Cantu. [THE STATE:] And how did he agree with them? All Filters. Michael A. Cantu is the morning News Now reporter for KCBD NewsChannel 11.
At least they probably have a daughter they can go home to," Stacey said. Any subsequent references to Articles are to those in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure unless otherwise identified. Cantu's final two arguments are both framed as claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. Appellant argues, in essence, that the prosecutor misstated the law. After ransacking the office, Alva noticed the camera and disconnected it, but did not remove the memory card. And in point four, appellant contends that the trial court erred by denying appellant the right to question jurors about their ability to consider the 35 calendar year condition on a life sentence. Neither party disputes that murder, sexual assault, robbery, and kidnapping are lesser included offenses of capital murder for purposes of the instant case. Cantu v. Quarterman, 341 Fed.Appx. Specifically, appellant wanted to ask veniremembers if they could hold the State to the burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt. To this day, Houstonians remember the girls' names and what happened to them.
Cantu had enchiladas, fajitas and a cinnamon bun for his final meal. Peter Cantu confessed to the murders at the time of his arrest. Cantu's assertion, however, invites us to look only at a single item of evidence and to ignore all of the remaining evidence in the case. Points of error one through four are overruled.FN3. Some of the other boys, including Derrick O'Brien, Jose Medellin, and Venancio Medellin, also gave confessions. Tuilaepa v. California, 512 U.S. 967, 979-80, 114 S.Ct. denied, 510 U.S. 1215, 114 S.Ct. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Pena, 16, and Jennifer Ertman, 14, were spending the evening at the swimming pool at a friend's apartment. Munoz allegedly stole more than 100 beers, along with cigarettes and rolling paper at a Valero Corner Store in the 1200 block of Probandt Street, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Appellant's argument is purely based on statistical studies allegedly showing that, in Texas, the death penalty is more likely to be assessed when the victim is white than when the victim is a member of a racial minority. The confessions of the gang members that were used at trial indicated that there was never less than 2 men on each of the girls at any one time and that the girls were repeatedly raped orally, anally and vaginally for the entire hour.
As the recitation of the facts set out in the beginning of this opinion shows, the circumstances surrounding this crime were horrendous. denied, 513 U.S. 1021, 115 S.Ct. Point of error nine is overruled. 2950, 49 L.Ed.2d 929 (1976), except to incorporate the dictates of Penry v. Lynaugh, 492 U.S. 302, 109 S.Ct. "Randy and Sandy have been through enough theres nothing left for them to say," Stacey said. The state court concluded that Cantu's counsel's performance was not deficient because the prosecution's statements were proper under Texas law and did not inject new or harmful facts into the trial in light of the record as a whole. Several of Ertman's ribs were broken from being kicked. By requiring the jury to at least consider a mitigating factor, the statute would survive constitutional scrutiny. With this standard in mind, we turn to Cantu's specific ineffectiveness arguments. In response to her friend's cries, Jennifer ran back to help, but appellant grabbed her and dragged her down the hill as well. The excerpt was also relevant as to the witness' credibility as it contradicted her testimony that she did not find the murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena somehow funny or amusing.
No additional information for Cantu Roofing yet. "Parents always worry about their kids, especially their daughters.". At Cantu's trial, immediately before the sentence was pronounced, Judge Bill Harmon allowed Jennifer's father, Randy Ertman, to speak directly to Cantu. "Just a bad, bad case.". "They are still in our hearts and prayers.". , 30, a security guard, was charged with burglary of a business he was hired to protect. Cantu seeks a COA on five issues: (1) whether due process requires the state trial court to inform the jury that, if sentenced to life in prison instead of death, Cantu would be eligible for parole after thirty-five years; (2) whether the district court's determination not to instruct the jury on lesser-included offenses violated the Eighth Amendment; (3) whether the way Texas places mitigating evidence before the jury violates the Eighth Amendment; FN1 (4) whether Cantu was rendered ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel did not object on due process grounds to the trial court's admitting photographs that depicted the victims' bodies and the crime scene; and (5) whether Cantu was rendered ineffective assistance because his trial counsel did not object to the prosecution's sentencing-phase argument urging the jury to consider those photographs. When the police followed this suggestion, they found the badly decaying bodies of Jenny and Elizabeth. [THE STATE:] Who said we had to kill them? Zimmerman was remanded by the United States Supreme Court to review in light of Johnson v. Texas, 509 U.S. 350, 113 S.Ct. Prior to the trial's opening statements, appellant objected that any testimony regarding the kidnapping, robbery, sexual assault, or murder of Pena constituted evidence of extraneous offenses. Cantu also confessed. In this regard, this point is inadequately briefed and presents nothing for our review. In light of the district court's thorough analysis, we cannot say that reasonable jurists would disagree with that determination and, therefore, deny a COA on this issue. It is not enough that the jury may disbelieve crucial evidence pertaining to the greater offense. However, evidence as to her good character, activities she enjoyed and the impact of her on her family is not relevant as appellant was not on trial for her murder and such evidence serves no purpose other than to inflame the jury. denied, 513 U.S. 853, 115 S.Ct. The district court, as did the state court, placed Cantu's first statement into the context of all the record evidence and determined that a rational jury would not have concluded that Cantu was guilty only of the lesser-included offenses. At the guilt/innocence phase of the instant case, the jury was specifically charged that they could not find appellant guilty of capital murder unless he intentionally murdered the victim or intentionally assisted in the commission of the murder and the aggravating offense. However, nowhere does appellant tell us specifically which terms he alleges are inadequately defined in the special issues. Fourteen-year-old Venancio watched as the others raped both girls orally, vaginally, and anally until appellant told him that he should get some. The girls were still being raped when appellant whispered to Venancio, We're going to have to kill them. When everyone was finished, appellant told them to take the girls to the woods where they proceeded to strangle them. Both wree sexually assaulted by the gang members, beaten, and strangled. Burial will follow at El Coyote Cemetery in Orange Grove, TX. KELLER, J., concurs in the result on point of error eight and joins in the remainder of the opinion. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children or the charity of your choice. He is preceded in death by his brother, Ralph Cantu Rodriguez; uncle, Richard Perez Rodriguez; aunt, Mary Ann Ortiz. 42.18, 8(b)(2), V.A.C.C.P., provision requiring a prisoner serving a life sentence for capital murder to serve 35 calendar years, without consideration of good conduct time, before becoming eligible for parole.
Your email address will not be published. However, he does contend the evidence is insufficient to support the jury's affirmative answer to the special issue on future dangerousness. He asserts that the nexus requirement set out by this Court in cases like Lackey v. State, 819 S.W.2d 111, 135 n. 10 (Tex.Crim.App.1989), Mines v. State, 852 S.W.2d 941 (Tex.Crim.App.1992),FN4 Richardson v. State, 879 S.W.2d 874 (Tex.Crim.App.1993), and Willingham v. State, supra, is no longer valid in light of the post- Penry sentencing scheme.FN5 He conclusorily states that, while a nexus was required under these post- Penry, pre-statute cases, this should no longer be the law in light of the enactment of Article 37.071, Section 2(e).FN6. Hence, his point presents nothing for our review.FN12 Tex.R.App. How they were mutilated, brutalized for perhaps as much as an hour. Texas Metal is a reality TV program first debuted on 7th November 2018 on Velocity. However, the Supreme Court also held that the State has a legitimate interest in countering this individualization of the defendant by reminding the jury that the victim, also, was an individual whose death represents a unique loss to society and to his or her family. denied, 499 U.S. 932, 111 S.Ct. Known for Texas Metal 7.1 TV Series Self - Owner, '96 Impala SS (as Pedro 'Pete' Canti) 2021 1 ep Credits IMDbPro Self Previous 1 Texas Metal Self - Owner, '96 Impala SS (as Pedro 'Pete' Canti) TV Series 2021 1 episode Personal details Alternative name Pedro 'Pete' Canti Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content [THE STATE:] So, at some point did they move on from talking about what they did to them sexually and tell you that they killed them? The girls were still on the tracks when they encountered the group of boys. Notwithstanding appellant's inadequate briefing, we note that the United States Supreme Court stated in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 96 S.Ct. ), cert. The medical examiner testified that Elizabeth's two front teeth were knocked out of her brutalized mouth before she died and that two of Jennifer's ribs were broken after she had died. of Criminal Justice) HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBS/AP/KHOU) Tonight, Peter Anthony Cantu will be executed for two of the most notorious deaths in Houston. Elliott v. State, 858 S.W.2d 478 (Tex.Crim.App. In this review, we do not attempt to determine what a particular jury subjectively believed. 680 following. Pallbearers: Anthony Cantu, Fidercio Cantu, Leon Perez, Gary Sorola, Jason Cantu, Adam Cantu, Joshua Cantu. Cantu, the first of five to be tried, convicted and condemned, will be the last to be executed. We have already decided these issues adversely to appellant. They alerted the police and posted fliers, but the girls were not found. 284, 126 L.Ed.2d 234 (1993).
871, 79 L.Ed.2d 29 (1984), have held that such a review is not required under the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. 7. psychiatric evidence; and
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Cantu's conviction in a direct appeal on January 29, 1997. The medical examiner later testified that this is how she could be sure as to the horrible brutality of the rapes, beatings and murders. Situando a esta He married Dominga Arizola in 1945. Extraneous offenses are only a portion of the evidence a jury is allowed to consider. Joe Cantu then placed an anonymous call to the Houston Police Department's "Crimestoppers" tip line. He's set to make the trip again, to witness for the third time the execution of one of the gang members responsible for the rape and murder of his teenage daughter and her schoolmate. A visitation will be held from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM with a Holy Rosary to be recited at 11:00 AM on Monday, February 21, 2022 at Holmgreen Mortuary, 2061 E. Main St., Alice, TX. Accordingly, I continue to dissent to the majority's continued analysis of this issue and treatment of points one through four, but concur in the result.
See Lawton, supra. He did not look toward the witnesses and made no last statement. Failure to make the required showing of either deficient performance or sufficient prejudice defeats the ineffectiveness claim. Strickland, 466 U.S. at 700, 104 S.Ct. Appellant, along with his co-defendants, brutally raped, strangled, and stomped the two girls to death. "Put it this way: I wish my daughter could have died the way he died today. * that appellant stole a bicycle from an eight-year-old and then turned it in for a reward;
The best result we found for your search is Peter Cantu age 70s in Austin, TX in the Gracywoods neighborhood. or. Four days after the murders, Christina Cantu convinced her husband to call the police. In his tenth point of error, appellant contends that the trial court erred in denying appellant's request for expert assistance to challenge the constitutionality of the special issues at the punishment phase. The group then headed towards some nearby railroad tracks. The subsequent boastful statements of the remaining gang members revealed that what then ensued was a brutal gang rape of both girls. The class is further limited in that the death penalty cannot be imposed on an individual convicted of capital murder unless the jury answers the special issues in the manner described in Article 37.071, Section 1, Code of Criminal Procedure. Point of error thirty-one is overruled. The girls were hurrying along railroad tracks in the dark in order to get home by their curfew. 2/3/94 -- A jury found Cantu guilty of capital murder. Point of error forty-one is overruled. Johnson, supra, at 135. Point four likewise claims reversible error in denying him the right to question prospective jurors about their ability to consider the 35-year minimum calendar years he would have to serve on a life sentence before becoming parole eligible. In memory of Peter Cantu 27.05.1975 - 17.08.2010. . (806) 763-8400.
Summary of incident: Convicted in the abductions and murders of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, in Houston. In point of error forty-five, appellant claims that his death sentence should be overturned because racial discrimination continues to taint the Texas sentencing scheme in violation of the Eighth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. denied, 516 U.S. 832, 116 S.Ct. Appellant has provided no reason why the situation should be different in Texas. They were kicked, teeth knocked out and hair pulled out and ribs broken. Michelle Licon Cantu currently resides in Lubbock, Texas. As a custom automotive shop we strive to serve our customers with the highest quality, most reliable builds in the industry.
However, enough tissue did exist for the medical examiner to determine that the girls had died of a trauma to the neck which was consistent with strangulation. A worship service was held on Sunday, February 2nd at 5:00 P.M. in the chapel of the Schaetter Funeral Home, Fredericksburg. denied, 514 U.S. 1117, 115 S.Ct. Thus, we do not consider the argument on appeal. 131, 133 L.Ed.2d 80 (1995); Willingham v. State, 897 S.W.2d 351 (Tex.Crim.App.
[I]t is incumbent upon the defendant to show that in its operation the statute is unconstitutional as to him in his situation; that it may be unconstitutional as to others is not sufficient. One of the deputies exited his vehicle and chased after Cantu, who then doubled back to the deputy's vehicle and drove off into Comal County. Prior Prison Record: Cantu is also serving a 10 year sentence in connection with an aggravated asault on a Houston man in January 1993. The records clearly show that such jury argument was not a summation of the evidence, a reasonable deduction from the evidence, an answer to opposing counsel's jury argument, nor a plea for law enforcement. 3368, 73 L.Ed.2d 1140 (1982). The district court, in turn, evaluated the state court's conclusion that the arguments were proper under the due process standard. See Heitman v. State, 815 S.W.2d 681 (Tex.Crim.App.1991). 81(b)(2). When Peter Cantu saw Jenny and Elizabeth, he thought it was a man and a woman and told the other gang members that he wanted to jump him and beat him up. His proposal is based upon a similar study undertaken in Illinois in which an expert found that jurors did not understand the Illinois punishment statutes. He made off with two cases of Budweiser beer and about 140 DVDs before police caught up with him.Read more: Police: Man rammed car into Dollar General, stole Budweiser, , 37, of Universal City, was arrested outside a Whataburger on Pat Booker Road April 30, 2014. [WITNESS:] [Appellant], Joe, Junior and Raul. FN3. To violate due process, an evidentiary ruling must result in a denial of fundamental fairness, and improperly admitting evidence will only justify habeas relief if the admission was a crucial, highly significant factor in the defendant's conviction. Neal v. Cain, 141 F.3d 207, 214 (5th Cir.1998).FN3. Raul was an acquaintance of Efrain and was not known to the other gang members. Feb.4, 2009). 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). Nearly two decades after friends and relatives frantically distributed flyers offering a $10,000 reward for help finding the teenagers who failed to return home from a summer pool party, prosecutor Donna Goode still has one in her office. In 1946, Pete initially started as a messenger boy for Western Union. The court overruled his objection. at 49.
The arrogance of the crime combined with the horror of it galvanized the entire city of Houston against the six gang members.