Judge weighs venue change in Rubio case
March 14, 2010 5:58 PM
Laura B. Martinez
The Brownsville Herald
BROWNSVILLE — The “facts of the case” could possibly be a key issue on whether visiting state District Judge Noe Gonzalez of Hidalgo County rules to move the capital murder trial of accused child killer John Allen Rubio out of Cameron County, a retired judge said.
Although many potential jurors might be familiar with Rubio’s name and the crime he is accused of committing, they are not privy to what actually occurred, retired Judge Robert Garza said.
Rubio, 29, is accused of murdering the three children of his common-law wife Angela Camacho in Brownsville on March 11, 2003. The children were smothered, stabbed and mutilated, according to Brownsville police investigators. Their decapitated bodies were stuffed inside trash bags.
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