Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Young gangster wastes life
“The lengthy prison term is for defendants just like Mr. Flores.”
Christopher Flores
Fallbrook gang member Christopher Flores was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years to life plus another 20 years in state prison on Monday, December 1.
The total years were compounded because of allegations that Flores used a firearm and the crime was committed for benefit of a gang; plus, Flores, 21, already had one violent strike conviction before he turned 18 years old.
Flores was reportedly serving time in a juvenile facility when he led an attack on a group of Vista Homeboys who were housed near the place set aside for a group of Varrio Fallbrook Locos inmates, according to prosecutor Cal Logan. For that offense, in 2011, Flores was convicted of a violent “strike” assault.
Flores’s most recent conviction was in December 2013 for an attempted-murder-shooting that occurred in May of 2013. The jury heard testimony from the man targeted for assassination; he said he saw the defendant pull a revolver from under his sweatshirt and start shooting. The witness said he ran past a truck parked on a Fallbrook street, and he heard the truck’s rear-view mirror shatter above his head as he ducked.
After the guilty verdict a year ago, Flores got a new attorney, motions were filed for a new trial, and sentencing was delayed until today.
Cal Logan
Herb Weston
Blaine Bowman
Prosecutor Cal Logan, a gang specialist, spoke to the judge before the sentence was pronounced.
Logan reviewed the dates that Flores had been in and out of custody, making a point of how many times he had re-offended while on probation. The prosecutor declared that Flores “refused to prove himself law-abiding in any way, in the short amount of times he was out of custody he just continued to commit more crimes.”
The prosecutor opined that a defendant like Flores “is the reason for the Three Strikes Law” and “the lengthy prison term is for defendants just like Mr. Flores.”
Logan concluded, “Society needs to be free of him. Guys like him are dangerous and violent and, given another chance, they just commit more crimes.”
Judge Blaine Bowman declined to “strike the strike,” as defense attorney Herb Weston had requested. Therefore, the prior strike doubled the base term of 15 years to life up to 30 years to-life.
Judge Bowman noticed that Flores’s mother and girlfriend were in the courtroom for the sentencing. “You let both of them down, completely,” the judge told Flores. “You are going to most likely spend the rest of your life in prison.”
The judge noticed that Flores has 632 days of custody credits so far. “It’s just a waste of a life,” the judge said, sounding frustrated.
Flores said, “I love you” to both his girlfriend and his mom while the bailiff led him out of the courtroom.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Young gangster wastes life
“The lengthy prison term is for defendants just like Mr. Flores.”
Young gangster wastes life
“The lengthy prison term is for defendants just like Mr. Flores.”
Christopher Flores
Fallbrook gang member Christopher Flores was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years to life plus another 20 years in state prison on Monday, December 1.
The total years were compounded because of allegations that Flores used a firearm and the crime was committed for benefit of a gang; plus, Flores, 21, already had one violent strike conviction before he turned 18 years old.
Flores was reportedly serving time in a juvenile facility when he led an attack on a group of Vista Homeboys who were housed near the place set aside for a group of Varrio Fallbrook Locos inmates, according to prosecutor Cal Logan. For that offense, in 2011, Flores was convicted of a violent “strike” assault.
Flores’s most recent conviction was in December 2013 for an attempted-murder-shooting that occurred in May of 2013. The jury heard testimony from the man targeted for assassination; he said he saw the defendant pull a revolver from under his sweatshirt and start shooting. The witness said he ran past a truck parked on a Fallbrook street, and he heard the truck’s rear-view mirror shatter above his head as he ducked.
After the guilty verdict a year ago, Flores got a new attorney, motions were filed for a new trial, and sentencing was delayed until today.
Cal Logan
Herb Weston
Blaine Bowman
Prosecutor Cal Logan, a gang specialist, spoke to the judge before the sentence was pronounced.
Logan reviewed the dates that Flores had been in and out of custody, making a point of how many times he had re-offended while on probation. The prosecutor declared that Flores “refused to prove himself law-abiding in any way, in the short amount of times he was out of custody he just continued to commit more crimes.”
The prosecutor opined that a defendant like Flores “is the reason for the Three Strikes Law” and “the lengthy prison term is for defendants just like Mr. Flores.”
Logan concluded, “Society needs to be free of him. Guys like him are dangerous and violent and, given another chance, they just commit more crimes.”
Judge Blaine Bowman declined to “strike the strike,” as defense attorney Herb Weston had requested. Therefore, the prior strike doubled the base term of 15 years to life up to 30 years to-life.
Judge Bowman noticed that Flores’s mother and girlfriend were in the courtroom for the sentencing. “You let both of them down, completely,” the judge told Flores. “You are going to most likely spend the rest of your life in prison.”
The judge noticed that Flores has 632 days of custody credits so far. “It’s just a waste of a life,” the judge said, sounding frustrated.
Flores said, “I love you” to both his girlfriend and his mom while the bailiff led him out of the courtroom.
Comments