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Does the court find out about prior convictions in another state?

  • Posted on October 18, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Step daughter has prior drug convictions in kansas all misdemeanors…now cuaght in texas for cocaine and a pound of pot…8 ball cocaine she said and the guy at the jail said….is this a lot of drugs and will they give her a stiffer sentence for the priors or will they find out because it is two different states?

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Does the court find out about prior convictions in another state?

  • Posted on October 18, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Step daughter has prior drug convictions in kansas all misdemeanors…now cuaght in texas for cocaine and a pound of pot…8 ball cocaine she said and the guy at the jail said….is this a lot of drugs and will they give her a stiffer sentence for the priors or will they find out because it is two different states?

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How come after 3 prior DWI convictions illegal was not deported now mother pregnant daughter dead not deported?

  • Posted on January 2, 2010 at 10:33 am

How come after 3 prior DWI convictions this illegal was not deported now mother and her pregnant daughter lay dead and why wasn’t the illegal deported ?
CONROE — A 27-year-old illegal immigrant with mulitple DWI convictions pleaded guilty this morning to felony murder charges in the death of a mother and daughter in a car accident more than a year ago.

Ignacio Gomez-Gutierrez, of Houston, through an interpreter, also pleaded guilty to two counts of failure to stop and render aid.

The case being heard in Montgomery County’s 9th District Court is the first felony DWI murder case in the county, prosecutors said.

Gomez-Gutierrez is accused of driving with a blood-alcohol content that was three times the legal limit when he plowed into the rear of a car on U.S. 59 near the entrance to Kingwood on March 25, 2007.

The car’s occupants, Maria Ortiz, 49, and her daughter Vaness, 18, who was five months pregnant, were killed instantly.

Gomez-Gutierrez fled from his disabled vehicle after the wreck, investigators said.

With Gomez-Gutierrez facing his fourth drunken driving charge, prosecutors elected to upgrade charges to felony murder instead of second-degree felony intoxicated manslaughter.

State law enables prosecutors to pursue the more serious charge because Gomez-Gutierrez caused a death while committing a felony crime.

Gomez-Gutierrez served time for three prior DWI convictions in 2002, 2004 and 2005 but authorities did not deport him to Mexico.

In 2005, Gomez-Gutierrez was stopped for running a stop sign in Harris County. Officers said that he had a strong alcohol odor and failed a field sobriety test.

He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to a year in county jail. He was released in six months, records showed.

A Montgomery County jury will decide Gomez-Gutierrez’s punishment in the latest case, or he could agree to a plea deal. Opening statements will resume this afternoon.

Gomez-Gutierrez faces up to 99 years in prison on the murder charges and up to five years in prison or a year in jail on the failure to stop and render aid charges.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6070284.html

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