VISTA: Judge weighs child’s testimony in death penalty case

North Country Times
3/12/2009

[What this media mouthpiece fails to tell you is that the alleged murderer/torturer is none other than …

AN ILLEGAL ALIEN!!!

Go figure. Why the silence? Navarette got your tongue?]

Prosecutors say a then-5-year-old girl was in the room when her toddler brother received the beating that killed him in 2005.

They want to put the man who allegedly did it to death.

And some of the most important testimony, if a judge allows it, in the case against Jose Maurice Castenada may rest on the tiny shoulders of a girl who will be 9 years old next month.

It’s up to the veteran judge to decide if the child is competent to testify about what she saw her mother, Maria Razo, and Castenada, her mother’s boyfriend, allegedly do to Cesar Razo, just 2 years old when the couple rushed him unconscious from their Escondido apartment to Palomar Medical Center on June 25, 2005.

He was pronounced dead 15 minutes after he arrived at the Escondido hospital. The couple allegedly claimed that Cesar had fallen from a swing set.

Castenada, 24, is charged with murder as well as a special circumstance allegation of torture —- which makes him eligible for the death penalty if convicted.

The story continues …..