Jury Selection in the 341st District Court
Written by Post Public Information Representative, May 17, 2010, 0 Comments
Courtesy Monica Garcia,
Jury selection began today in the 341st District Court in the trial of Jaime Tomas Hernandez Rocha . The Defendant is facing one count of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, a second degree felony with a range of punishment between two and twenty years in prison.
On July 17, 2009, the Defendant was identified as the shooter in an attack on a man driving in the vicinity of Palo Blanco and South New York. At approximately eleven a.m., the victim in the shooting dialed 911 and told police that a man known to him had pulled up alongside his vehicle and shot at him, striking him twice in the abdomen.
The Defendant is a confirmed member of the Mexican Mafia and is in custody, pending a $150,000 bond.
At the time of the shooting, the Defendant had only recently been paroled on a Federal charge of Possession of a Firearm by a Felon. It is understood that he was residing at a halfway house at the time of the shooting.
