Bob Walsh presents us with an excellent example of why the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold the right of Florida and other states to sentence some juveniles to prison for life without the possibility of parole.
JUVENILE DOUBLE MURDERER GOES FOR THE GOLD AGAIN
By Bob Walsh
PacoVilla’s Corrections blog
November 14, 2009
Moses Valdez is now 32 years old. He is in the slammer in Sacramento County, a place he is familiar with. While this is, in and of itself, perhaps not that big a deal what is interesting is that when he was 16 he murdered two men, plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and got an 18 year sentence.
Valdez shot Christopher Dominguez, age 19, and Christopher Jiminez, age 24, while they sat in their car. That was in 1993. In October of 1995 he was sentenced for those killings, apparently as an adult though the details are a tad sketchy.
He is now back as a guest of the county on charges of reckless evasion and ADW [Assault With a Deadly Weapon] likely to cause GBI [Great Bodily Injury]. Sounds to me like maybe somebody is looking at a second strike.
Some people can get their mind right and their life turned around. Some people can't, or won't, or at least don't. Sounds to me like our man Moses may be one of those.
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