Family members of Jesus Garcia leave courtroom with tears after three defendants enter pleas

A pretrial conference and a motion to exclude gang evidence due to failure to comply with discovery order in the Jesus Garcia case was scheduled August 29. Instead all three defendants entered negotiated pleas today to amended charges.

Mario Nunez and Joe Olivo Jr entered a guilty plea to the amended charge of voluntary manslaughter, PC 192 (a) and amended gang enhancement PC 186.22 (b) for a stipulated sentence of 16 years.

https://www.shouselaw.com/street-gang.html

Joe Olivo III entered an open plea of 12 years for the amended charge of voluntary manslaughter and PC 12022 (b) 1 gang enhancement; personal use of a knife. Olivo III's entered an open plea. The maximum Olivo III could be sentenced to is 12 years. If he is sentenced to the maximum of 12 years, the breakdown of that sentence would be 11 for the voluntary manslaughter and 1 year for the gang enhancement.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN&sectionNum=12022.

All trailing cases for all three defendants were dismissed by the People. All defendants waived their right to appeal

Sentencing for Nunez and Olivo Jr is on September 17 at 8:30. Their cases were referred for calculation of credits.

Olivo III is on October 4.  His case was referred for a full probation report.

Deputy District Attorney Luke Bernthal is prosecuting the case. Mr. David Celli is representing Mario Nunez. Ms. Andrea Sullivan is representing Joe Olivo III. Mr. George Mavris is representing Joe Olivo Jr.

The gag order on the case has been lifted.

The fourth defendant in this case, Nicholas Leigl also entered a plea in December 2017.

https://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2017/12/one-down-three-more-to-go-in-jesus.html?m=1

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Original charges for Joe Olivo, Jr:

Original charge for Joe Olivo III:

DA Press Release:

Today, 39-year-old Joe Olivo Jr. and 32-year-old Mario Nunez pled guilty to charges of voluntary manslaughter committed in furtherance of a criminal gang. Both defendants will be sentenced on September 17, 2018, to 16 years in state prison.

Twenty-year-old Joe Olivo III, a minor at the time of the incident, pled guilty to charges of voluntary manslaughter with personal use of a knife. He will be sentenced on October 4, 2018, to serve up to 12 years in prison.

These convictions hold the three defendants accountable for their roles in the death of 14-year-old Jesus Garcia-Romero, who was fatally stabbed on the night of December 16, 2014, in an apartment in the 700 block of P Street in Eureka.

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