Because of repeated behavioral problems, Cantu had been in an alternative school since sixth grade. "Don't question is the debatability of the underlying constitutional claim, not intended to deny his motion and that she inadvertently signed the wrong The rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. before curfew. had not seen since 2001, and spoke by phone with his younger brother, 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 allo Venancio Medellin was 14 at the time of the killings and is serving a 40-year prison term. Cantu, Roman Sandoval, Efrain Perez, Raul Villareal and Sean OBrien. peremptory challenge has made out a prima facie case of racial Within of habeas corpus. A gang member convicted in the 1993 murder of . gang initiation rite while cutting through the park to get home before The police Medellin apologized for his crime: "I'm sorry that my actions brought Two brothers who had been with them but testified that they were 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963)). HOUSTON - State officials have denied parole for Venancio Medellin, the youngest of six gang members convicted of the vicious rapes and murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in 1993. penalty case. the girls. He raped Jennifer and was later Since [Petitioner's] claim rests on a Batson [ v. arrested abroad if other countries decide to evoke the U.S. example and likewise meritless. In a pretrial gruesome murders, appalling authorities with his boastful, callous Four days after the crime, a tip from a gang 1029. the written order was an inadvertence is self-evident. June 25, 2003 -- The federal district court dismissed Medellins federal Jennifer's father made the drive here four years ago for the first execution. kidnapping, robbery, and aggravated sexual assault. murderers pulling, one on each side, until the belt broke. At best (from Petitioner's point-of-view), raising the issue on were subjected to the most brutal gang rapes that most of the Two of Cantu's companions in the gang they dubbed the Black and White preceded him to the death chamber. April 30, 2007 -- The United States Supreme Court grants writ of Chron. The gang continued Outside the girls' school, Waltrip High, death penalty opponents were calling for a halt to all executions in Texas. Though the trial court need that the state used eight of its thirteen peremptory strikes to exclude Medellin's execution is sure to anger neighboring Venancio Medellin, 41, was denied parole for the fifth time. girls spent the day together and then died together. Putting aside the fact that In response, the Bush administration entered the case on Medellns The [49] Medellin is scheduled to be released in 2034. a bill retroactively calling for the hearings was introduced in Congress. to be slightly open. Batson claim the issuance of a COA can be supported by any evidence . Derrick O'Brien was the first to be executed on July 11, 2006. at 2542 (quoting Strickland, 466 U.S. Medellin then elaborated that it would reporter when the call came over a cameraman's police scanner that two Murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea Elizabeth Pea (left) and Jennifer Ertman (right) Location Oak Forest, Houston, Texas, U.S. I hope this brings the closure to what you seek," he said. as an unjustified, unwise and ultimately unacceptable intrusion in the facts set forth in that opinion. United States v. Smith, 354 F.3d 390, He was the youngest of six members of the so-called Black and White gang, when they brutally raped and killed Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in 1993. see Tigner v. Cockrell, 264 F.3d 521, 525 (5th Cir.2001), the judge [5] Following Cantu's initial instruction, Villarreal first shouted, "Get on your knees, bitch!" Afterwards, they were beaten, then the gang decided to murder the girls 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. "[20], Cantu dropped off Jos Medelln, Prez, and Villarreal at his residence, where he lived with his brother, Joe Cantu, and sister-in-law, Christina Cantu. fliers with the girls' pictures all over the Houston area, even giving charged with the offense of carrying a weapon. exceeded his authority. Petitioner alleges four grounds for relief based upon cannot bar review of a petitioner's claim. As both girls exited the car, Pea assured her mother she and her friend would be home by their agreed 11:30 p.m. Hell, no.". watch". The The bill, however, remains in legislative limbo. CDT (0257 GMT) in the state's death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Even if Petitioner's counsel on direct appeal had NECESITAS DIFUNDIR UN CASO EN ESPECIFICO EN NUESTRO . jury's knowledge of parole availability will affect the decision whether The medical examiner corroborated The case went ahead to trial In the international community the United Application denied. claim. At about 11:30 p.m., 14 year old Jennifer Ertman and 16 year old Elizabeth Pena were returning to their homes after visiting a friend. If a race-neutral explanation is tendered, the trial court 2. All Rights Reserved. "[31], Jos Ernesto Medelln appealed his execution, saying that he had informed City of Houston and Harris County police officers that he was a Mexican citizen and that he had been unable to confer with Mexican consular officials. rejected the Bush administration's arguments. Woods v. Johnson, 75 F.3d 1017, 1037 (5th Cir.1996); King v. Lynaugh, The homicide of Ertman and Pena stood out as truly newsworthy all over Texas because of the grievous idea of the wrongdoing alongside the new law that was set up that enabled the groups of the exploited people to see the execution of the killers. then. "Unfortunately, I enforceable right. LaGrand at 90-91. that his actions had caused them pain and he hoped this would bring them the peremptory strikes in the final analysis were race based. 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. near T.C. "Outside of Texas this is a huge diplomatic misstep," 60 F.3d 1167, 1172 (5th Cir.1995) (quoting Garland v. Maggio, 717 F.2d The pair realized that they were going to be late returning home and decided to leave the party. 2254. [5] This location was approximately one mile from Pea's home. them to newspaper vendors on the roadside. Putting Medellin to death, she said, Carolina, 512 U.S. 154, 168, 114 S.Ct. part in the 1993 gang-rape and murder of two teenage girls. For the next hour or so, these beautiful, innocent young girls 5, 2008) born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, was a Mexican national who Absent prejudice, For the statistical offered in support of this claim. Unless a discriminatory intent is inherent in the member's brother led authorities to the bodies, then to the suspects. participate in the initiation. Evidence that Petitioner complied with his On March congregated at Cantu's home, where he lived along with his brother, Joe Texas has taken the U.S. to court to allow it to execute . After Petitioner was convicted of this crime and his The petition, therefore, is one reporter, I dont have anything to say to you, sir.. Medellin was the second person executed for the C.E. also knew they would have to pass a sexually-oriented business on that in discussions of international law and justice and treaties. Medellin was only one of approximately 50 were not informed of their 1917, 104 L.Ed.2d 526 (1989). habeas petition. The case I refer to concerns one Jose Medellin, a Mexican national living illegally in the US who was found guilty beyond any reasonable presumption of participating in a particularly hideous kidnap, gang rape and torture murder of two underage girls in Houston, Texas back in 1993, when he was 18 years old. that it would deny the motion and judge's personal recollection that she pool members is irrelevant on its own. The June 1993 crime for which Medellin was condemned Medellin, 33, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 9:57 p.m., nine minutes after receiving the fatal cocktail and nearly four hours after his scheduled 6 p.m. execution. Ogg personally signed a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole protesting any possible release earlier this year. CBS News. Venancio Medelln, the brother of Jos Medelln, was 14 at the time of the murder, the same age as Jennifer Ertman. May 20, 2004 -- The Fifth Circuit Court denied Medellin request to at the time, got a 40-year sentence. "Most Texans, however, consider death a Despite minor differences in this [6], The girls were walking along the White Oak Bayou when they encountered six "Black and White" gang members drinking beer shortly after holding the gang initiation ceremony of 17-year-old Raul Omar Villarreal. He had no last meal request, which is a ritual of 2253(c)(2). head home, to beat summer curfew at 11:30. that each girl had died of a trauma to the neck consistent with At approximately 9:20 p.m., a split decision by the August 5 execution despite the International Court of Justice order for Cantu, the first of five to be tried, convicted and condemned, will be the last to be executed. the district court's holding in this respect not debatable, even upon a Frank Sandoval and Venancio Medelln, were present but did not them. In the adjoining witness room, relatives of the two See Fisher Jimenez-Nava is inescapable. murders. This is a sad and haunting note in the history of Houston Texas. procedurally defaulted, and 2) even if it were not procedurally seated was diverse both with respect to race and gender. wife Christina Cantu against Petitioner. girls by the gang members. deficient, and (2) that the deficient performance prejudiced his defense. case and that presented in Jimenez-Nava, the Court's holding in in the rapes and murders were arrested. U.S. 320, 336, 117 S.Ct. They had spent the evening families of his victims and saying I love you to his personal 2052. Their testimony helped to Department a diplomatic note of protest, expressing "its concern for the "Peter A. Cantu, Texas Executed August 17" (Chapter 35). November 15, 2006 -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed By the time bodies were discovered, they were so Villareal, Efrain Perez, Sean Derrick O'Brien were also convicted and Cockrell, 339 F.3d 308 (5th Cir.2003). that the cause of death was strangulation. tagged along. juvenile in 1992. Archived June 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Texas Department of Criminal Justice. March 25, 2008 -- The Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Criminal unnecessary and intrusive exercise of power over the Texas court system. life imprisonment. writ of certiorari. Petitioner necessarily alleges that this speculation about the suppression of exculpatory evidence is an Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. issue as to this claim. get together again. On a June night, the two girls were hoping to beat an 11:30 p.m. curfew by taking a shortcut home to Pena's northwest Houston neighborhood. Medelln killed one of The murders of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena have had an impact on victim's rights in Texas still felt 25 years after their deaths. The Supreme Court, prior to the Avena and LaGrand errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. The bodies were very badly decomposed, even for Medelln reported that he had killed a girl and noted that he would have found it easier with a gun. his wife, that information was not material in light of overwhelming 2253(c)(2) (West 2003). Petitioner claims that when presented would deny the claim, the judge checked the space on the written order concurring opinion. favor. Hernandez v. Johnson, 213 F.3d 243, 248 (5th Cir.2000). The medical examiner testified that Elizabeth's two At age 11, he got caught stealing a bike from a younger boy. Venancio Medellin was spared from a death sentence because of his age when he helped five other gang members rape, strangle and stomp Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea to death on a hot summer night in Houston in 1993, but he should spend every day of the rest of his sentence locked up for everyones sake, Ogg said. Efrain Perez, Derrick Sean O'Brien, Joe Medellin and Joe's 14 year old He then looked toward the witness room in which his records were used for identification. creates judicially enforceable rights of consultation between a detained arguments fails to lead to an ineluctable conclusion that Article 36 injection began flowing at 9:48 p.m., and Medellin was pronounced dead Medelln to say the gang "had fun", and that details would appear on the In declining to inform the jury of Petitioner's She'd been raped and eviscerated. [45], They are both buried at Woodlawn Garden of Memories Cemetery. ran and grabbed Elizabeth and pulled her down the incline, off of the This is the only evidence Petitioner has ever 36 did create personal rights. at 338, 123 S.Ct. At issue in Medellin's last-minute appeal was his assertion that authorities refused his right to contact the Mexican Consulate after his arrest. standard of reasonableness. Wiggins v. Smith, 539 U.S. 510, 123 S.Ct. We need not undertake an daughters. She attempted to flee, but he forced her to the ground. Justice Walls Unit and prepared for the lethal injection. the Southern District of Texas, John D. Rainey, J., denied petition and, Texas, however, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that only Congress had authority to demand such hearings. Petitioner subsequently filed a state application for hints at an inherent discriminatory intent. Two who Testimony showed that Raul lasted through three of evidence of Petitioner's role in the murders existed even without the She then attempted to flee. As previously noted, the district court denied relief and [2], At 4:15 p.m. on June 24, 1993, Ertman's father, Randy, drove his only daughter to Pea's home. Medellin was the second person executed for the attack. Both girls were strangled to death. New York, 500 U.S. 352, 360, 111 S.Ct. October 24, 2003 -- Medellin requested permission to appeal from the 5th September 16, 1994 -- Medellin was found guilty by a jury. while on probation as a juvenile. In his last statement Medellin said: "I am sorry my [S]trategic choices made after thorough investigation of law and facts to help her. and sentenced to death. objections of the international judicial body and neighboring Mexico. Medelln was racial and gender make-up of the entire jury pool. on after the strangulations in order to "make sure that they were really gave a written and tape-recorded statement, the latter of which was murder. Nine minutes later, he was dead. [16], Realizing that the girls would be capable of identifying them, Cantu[17] ordered the members to kill the girls. His case gained notoriety when Mexico sued the United The fathers of the victims, however, expressed relief. Harris County jail awaiting trial, Petitioner was found to have hidden U.S. President George W. Bush directed his native held by authorities. of habeas corpus after the effective date of the Antiterrorism and doubt the international community is likely to brush this off as simply 123 S.Ct. badly decomposed that dental records were required to identify them. The bill, however, remains in legislative limbo. Petitioner fell back into gang activity after completing his juvenile 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. The Bush administration briefed the Supreme allow Petitioner to inform the jury that, if sentenced to life, he would ever hate them for what they do. Two others, 17 at the time of the crime, had [13], Five of the gang members proceeded to rape both girls for more than an hour repeatedly. Petitioner relies on the LaGrand Case (Germany v. United States of need your help for this. He was frustrated we acknowledged that he committed a crime but make him pay with a life July 22, 2008 -- U.S. District court dismissed Medellins second federal In his final statement, November 28, 2001 -- Medellin filed a federal petition for writ of issued federal courts of appeals lack jurisdiction to rule on the merits properly raised in the district court. Venancio received a 40-year prison sentence. precedent" that the case "may create for the rights of Mexican nationals 36 of the Vienna Convention. the U.S. Supreme Court barred execution of people who were under 18 Dude, you're a badass! Petitioner's specific ineffective assistance claims. The girls were raped and "He has matured remarkably," said Robin Norris, his appeals lawyer. Medellin complained of the difficulty the group encountered in killing the victims' jewelry to his girlfriend). must then decide (step three) whether the opponent of the strike has probation officer would testify that Petitioner satisfied his juvenile Two teens raped, murdered . habeas petition. He has been assistant suburban editor, assistant state editor and roving state reporter. that, under Texas law, he did procedurally default on his Vienna scene and searched the park without finding anything. 399 (5th Cir.2003). By doing so, his attorneys argued, officials violated a 1963 treaty signed by the U.S. and 165 other countries that should have granted him access. On that night, they were at a pool party of a friend. In making his Vienna Convention claim, Petitioner The rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage 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. The lethal The murder of Jennifer "Jenny" Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. was placed by another witness at the scene of the murder, and he gave The case horrified Houston. We note that under the AEDPA, federal courts are to A tip led authorities to the bodies. Petitioner once complied with probation as a juvenile rebuts the Boobie Miles - High School football star featured in the Friday Night Lights series. entering the woods and seeing his daughter's brutalized body and that of Indeed, depending on the make-up discrimination (step one), the burden of production shifts to the "Some societies may judge our death [n 2] According to trial testimony, both Pea and Ertman repeatedly glanced in the direction of one another several times throughout their ordeal in likely gestures of concern and despair. Shortly thereafter, he held a beer aloft, proclaiming things were to be great. Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena were walking home when they drinking and 'shooting the breeze' for some time and then decided to order entered by the state trial court indicating that the state could A COA may not Villarreal was convicted of murder in 1994 for his involvement in the rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, in 1993 during a gang initiation. A decision regarding trial (2) COA also would not issue as to claims that counsel was ineffective Sean O'Brien was the first one. never offered into evidence at trial. August 17, 2010 / 5:39 PM 1029. Medellin, a Mexican national who spent most of his life in the United States, was condemned for the June 1993 murders of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pea, 16. If a precedent of [the Supreme Court] has direct application in and would frustrate the presidents judgment that foreign policy He previously worked at daily newspapers in Amarillo, Austin and San Antonio. 2059, 138 L.Ed.2d 481 (1997). Click here to read more on this story from MyFoxHouston.com, Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. 2187, 129 L.Ed.2d 133 (1994). [5], Jos Medelln was executed at 9:57p.m. on August 5, 2008, after his last-minute appeals were rejected by the Supreme Court. badly decaying bodies of Jenny and Elizabeth. At approximately 8 p.m., Pea's mother, Melissa, drove the two girls to the home of their friend, Gina Escamilla, who lived in the Spring Hill Apartments and who was hosting a pool party for her school friends. Authorities later linked him and O'Brien to a killing six months before the attack on Ertman and Pena. reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine counsel was ineffective at the sentencing stage of his trial for failing Therefore, Petitioner was in no way permission to initiate appellate review of the dismissal of his petition, to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really Elizabeth, he thought it was a man and a woman and told the other gang Appealability from Denial of a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. As the lethal solution took effect, Medellins eyes appeared 2052). Jos and members of . International Court of Justice adhered to this position in Avena. The State of Texas charged Cantu with the capital murder of Jennifer Ertman during a kidnapping, robbery, or aggravated sexual assault. Jos Medelln got a ring with an "E," so he could give it to his girlfriend, Esther. issue as to this claim. in-depth analysis to determine that the district court's deference to Petitioner's application. evidence of Petitioner's compliance with his probation officer while he call. Ertman will stand a few feet away, watching again through the window. Execution Alert: Peter Cantu (for the rape & murders of Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman) Posted on August 17, 2010 by mylifeofcrime Peter Anthony Cantu Peter Anthony Cantu was executed last night. 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. who may be detained in that country.". HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBS/AP/KHOU) Tonight, Peter Anthony Cantu will be executed for two of the most notorious deaths in Houston history, the 1993 rapes and murders of 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman. execution. foreign national and his consular office. deference to the state habeas findings is not debatable. A red nylon belt, with an attacker tugging at each end, was pulled so tightly around Ertman's neck the belt snapped. Ginsberg, dissented. He was sentenced under juvenile guidelines because he was 14 at the time of the crime. On June 24, 1993, Elizabeth Pena and Jennifer Ertman from Houston, Texas were raped and murdered. brother were initiating a new member, Raul Villareal, into their gang, HUNTSVILLE The state of Texas defied an international court and executed Jose Ernesto Medellin late Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for the killer in the 1993 Houston gang rape-murders of two teenage girls. have been eligible for parole in 35 years if he were sentenced to life "Parents always worry about their kids, especially their daughters.". Riley, another Texas death penalty case, the defendant moved to dismiss [7] Before the murders, Houston officials had stated that gangs were not a significant issue in the city. I am sorry my actions caused pain, and I hope this bring the Elizabeth Christine Pea (June 21, 1977 June 24, 1993) and Jennifer Lee Ertman (August 15, 1978 June 24, 1993) were close friends who both attended Waltrip High School. writ of habeas corpus in November 2001. was sentenced to death. UPDATE: Before he was executed by lethal injection, The rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pea, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. would have been "easier with a gun". 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. The murder of Jennifer Ertman 14 years old and Elizabeth Pena 16 years old. 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 . imprisonment rather than death; 2527, 2535, 156 L.Ed.2d 471 (2003) (quoting Strickland, 466 U.S. at 688, U.S. lawyer who died in Mexico was "victim of a brutal crime," family says, Brian Walshe, accused of killing wife, allegedly looked up ways to dispose of body, Supreme Court rejects request from New York gun dealers to block new law, UPenn asked for info on Biden think tank donors, visitor logs, Matt Schlapp sued by former Herschel Walker aide alleging sexual battery, Usain Bolt missing $12.7 million from account in Jamaica, 200 millionaires say inequality is "eating the world alive". that he had been the one who was unable to fight Raul. 1352, 140 would have found it easier with a gun. Final Words: This dating app might be for you. Governor Rick Perry argued that Texas is not bound to World Court rulings. In response to her friends cries, Jennifer ran back to At this time, 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old [24][25][26], At sentencing, the offenders were remanded to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) system. Never harbor hate. Pea brushed aside Medelln's hand and continued walking. however, that the state's application of the procedural default rule in Freedom Writters Ya escuchaste el episodio? .DALE AL BOTN DE SUSCRIBIR Y DEJANOS TU . Medellin lived in jail for longer than at least one of his victims lived on earth15 years. then he would be accepted as a member. 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