Jorge Morgan (left) and Robert Anthony Morgan are accussed of killing Cynthia Ramos.
Robert Morgan, 39, and Jorge Morgan, 24, stand accused homicide for the Aug. 6 killing Cynthia Ramos, 58, in the Green Oaks Mobile Home Estates on MacArthur Drive, where the defendants and the victim lived.
Each face special circumstances allegations of killing the woman during the commission of a robbery, and murdering her in the commission of a burglary.
The Morgans, registered domestic partners in San Joaquin County who have told the court they’re married, were in court briefly today for a hearing at which prosecutor Valli Israels told the court no decision has yet been made on whether District Attorney Jim Willett will seek the death penalty.
“We take it very seriously,” she said. “We will set it for trial when we know whether we’ll proceed with the death penalty.”
The autopsy report showed Ramos tried to fight off her attackers when she was stabbed 55 times, bludgeoned 13 times and strangled with a rope or twine. Ramos’ roommate, Mary Arafiles, told police she saw the Morgans leave the mobile home carrying Ramos’ locking suitcase, which she used as a safe for her jewelry and other valuables.
The two men will be back in court Jan. 25.
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I hear the DAs get laid off in bad economies when crime rates go up. The same thing happened in a fist full of dollars. Just now the liberal lawyers could stand to make money from the media delaying what looks like an open and shut case. Somebody must be getting something outta looking at them.
Media, Give us dirty laundry. Or at least a Java Script with a movable noose.
Then what?
You sit on death row for another 25-or-so years wading through the appeals process.
The system is collectively out-of-date, cost-ineffective, and an out-right travesty to the families of these victims.
Send 'em to hell and be quick about it.
And please everyone, warn you friends and don't make the same mistake I just made. When I came to this site I was eating, and to have those two mugs flash on the screen when you have a mouth full of food nearly caused me to need the Heimlich Maneuver.
Ugh!
CN
Yet the people who shut down Carnegie Park could get it shut down in no time flat?
Was that in Garamendi's district?