Illegal immigrant charged with killing 2 cops gives shocking courtroom rant

Update 3/27/2018: Luis Bracamontes smiled again Tuesday as a California jury handed him a death sentence. He smiled and clapped as the verdict was being read. The convicted cop killer will return to court in late April for a formal sentencing by the judge.

Despite the sentence, however, it remains to be seen whether Bracamontes will actually be put to death. The last time California executed an inmate was in 2006. An average waiting time for the execution is nearly 18 years due to legal challenges to the state’s methods of execution.

Bracamontes’ wife, Janelle Monroy, was sentenced to nearly 50 years in prison for helping her husband in the murders.

Update 2/9/2018: After about five hours of deliberation, the jury declared him guilty of murdering Sacramento sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver, then Placer sheriff’s Detective Michael Davis Jr. The verdict came on what would have been Oliver’s 51st birthday. Bracamontes softly said, “Yay,” after the first verdict was read, smiling toward the deputy’s widow sitting in the front row. Later, as he was being taken out of the courtroom, he said, “I’m going to kill more cops soon.”

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Bracamontes, who has repeatedly blurted out in court that he killed the deputies and wished he had killed more. The penalty phase of his trial starts March 5.

Defense attorneys argued that Bracamontes is mentally ill and was high on methamphetamine during the shootings and should be spared. A judge found Bracamontes competent to stand trial and he refused to plea not guilty by reason of insanity.

Public defenders Jeffrey Barbour and Norm Dawson argued unsuccessfully that anti-immigrant sentiment prompted by Trump made it unlikely that Bracamontes could get a fair trial.

A separate jury is considering whether Bracamontes’ wife, Janelle Monroy, an American citizen, should be convicted of murder. She has contended that she was a victim of her abusive and paranoid husband who frequently used meth, marijuana and alcohol during a meandering journey across several western states, from their home in Utah to Sacramento.

Original Description: In the murder trial of the killings of two California sheriff’s deputies, an illegal immigrant Luis Bracamontes,37, interrupted the court when he grinned and said “I wish I had killed more of the mother-------s.”

“I will break out soon and I will kill more, kill whoever gets in front of me…There’s no need for a f---ing trial,” said Bracamontes.

Bracamontes is from Mexico, and repeatedly entered the United States illegally. His lawyer said “We believe Mr. Bracamontes’ outbursts, his laughter, are a function of his mental illness,” and attempted to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. His lawyer also argued that it is unlikely his client will receive a fair trial due to the anti-immigrant sentiment encouraged by President Trump’s hard line on immigration. But the judge was having none of it.

The trial is happening this week.

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