Lawyers on both sides of the Ashley Benton murder trial are in court this morning for a hearing in which prosecutors were expected to say whether the intend to retry Benton on the original murder charge, try her on a lesser charge or drop charges altogether — or, perhaps, to accept a plea counteroffer from Benton's attorneys. Lawyers for Benton, who is accused of murder in the stabbing death of gang member Gabriel Granillo at...
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After jurors deliberated for 17 and a half hours on the fate of Ashley Benton, the 17-year-old charged with the murder of a fellow teen during a gang fight last summer, we found out what'll happen to Benton — or rather, we didn't. Noting that the jury had been deadlocked for six hours, state District Judge Devon Anderson declared a mistrial Friday. Brian Wice, a member of Benton's defense team, said one juror had voted...
Jurors today are continuing to deliberate over the fate of Ashley Benton, the 17-year-old girl accused of murdering an MS-13 gang member during a gang fight at a Montrose-area last last summer. Jurors got the case yesterday after closing arguments during which prosecutors and defense attorneys again brought out baseball bats and knives, some of the weapons used in the fight, and summed up seven days' worth of evidence from the trial. "Gabriel Granillo has an appointment with death," defense attorney Kent Schaffer told jurors. "It was either his or someone else's." But it doesn't matter who the victim was, prosecutor Mia Magness said, "saint or sinner."
Ashley Benton took the stand in her own defense during her murder trial yesterday, testifying that she didn't mean to hurt anyone when she went with friends to a gang "rumble" at Chew Park last summer, but doing nothing to explain discrepancies in her statements to police. "It was a bad decision on my part," Benton, 17, said of buying the $8 knife she used to kill 14-year-old gang member Gabriel Granillo during the June...
The first gang member testified yesterday in the trial of Ashley Benton, the 17-year-old girl accused of stabbing 15-year-old Gabriel Granillo to death last summer during a gang fight at Chew Park — and he told jurors that Granillo wasn't trying to run away from the fight, as prosecutors had said during opening arguments Monday. The witness — a 20-year-old members of Southwest Locos Salvatrucha, a Houston subset of the MS-13 gang, who calls himself...
Jurors heard opening arguments yesterday in the murder trial of Ashley Benton, the girl accused of stabbing a 14-year-old gang member to death at Chew Park near Montrose last summer. Benton — who was 16 at the time — was involved with the Crazy Crew gang, members of which got into a fight with members of MS-13, the gang with which Granillo was affiliated. Benton's defense attorneys told jurors Monday that she stabbed Granillo in...
Dontae Moore, the 19-year-old man charged with capital murder in the Dec. 27 shooting of Bellaire High School student Jonathan Finkelman, testified Thursday that he only meant to scare Finkelman by holding a loaded gun to his head during what Moore said was intended to be a robbery. Finkelman, 16, was found in Godwin Park with a gunshot wound to the head; information later emerged that Finkelman and a friend were at the park meeting...
In an unexpected move Wednesday, State District Court Judge Pat Shelton set the trial date for Ashley Paige Benton, the 16-year-old girl accused of stabbing a teen to death in a gang fight, at Aug. 7. The date is barely two months after Benton reportedly killed Gabriel Granillo during an ambush at Chew Park, and it's far sooner than attorneys on either side predicted. "I anticipate neither the state nor the defense is going to...
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