Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler said he didn’t believe Rogelio Contreras’ claims that he is innocent in the June 2001 killing of Jacqueline Piazza.
Contreras, 44, was convicted March 3 of second-degree murder, while co-defendants Santos Grimaldi, 39, and Melvin Sandoval, 43, were convicted of first-degree murder.
Jurors also found true the special circumstance allegations of murder during the commission of a rape and a lewd act on a child against Grimaldi and Sandoval, who are awaiting sentencing and are facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. A jury deadlocked in March 2018 on the murder charge against the three men, but a separate jury convicted a fourth man, Jorge Palacios, now 44, in March 2018 of first-degree murder and kidnapping to commit another crime involving Piazza’s killing.
Jurors in Palacios’ case also found true the special circumstance allegations of murder during a kidnapping, murder during a rape or attempted rape and murder during the commission or attempted commission of a lewd act on a child, along with gang and gun allegations. A state appeals court panel subsequently upheld Palacios’ conviction, with the panel noting that the victim was quietly sobbing in the back seat when the vehicle stopped under a freeway underpass and she was ordered into the car’s trunk so roadway cameras would not be able to document her as a passenger.Her body was found in a wilderness area in Elysian Park by a hiker walking his dog.
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