• Illegal alien convicted of murdering Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts sente

    From But But Sanctuary Cities! Blue Wave@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 13 00:15:15 2022
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    Cristhian Bahena Rivera was sentenced Monday to life in prison
    without the possibility of parole for the 2018 killing of
    University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts.

    Judge Joel D. Yates told Bahena Rivera, "You, and you alone,
    forever changed the lives of those who loved Mollie Tibbetts.
    And for that, you and you alone will receive the following
    sentence."

    Bahena Rivera, wearing a mask and headphones, was stoic as Yates
    told him he would serve a "lifetime sentence with no eligibility
    for parole."

    Bahena Rivera, 27, was sentenced to the maximum penalty under
    the law in a high-profile case that also became politicized, in
    part because of the defendant's status as an undocumented
    immigrant.

    Earlier this month, Yates rejected a request for a new trial for
    Bahena Rivera, who was convicted May 28 of first-degree murder
    in the death of 20-year-old Tibbetts.

    Yates dismissed Bahena Rivera’s claim that newly discovered
    evidence implicated other alleged suspects in Tibbetts' slaying.

    In a 13-page decision, Yates said the evidence wasn’t new nor
    would it change the outcome of the trial. A jury deliberated for
    seven hours over two days before convicting Bahena Rivera.

    Yates also rejected claims by Bahena Rivera’s lawyers that
    prosecutors suppressed evidence.

    At the trial, Bahena Rivera took the witness stand and claimed
    two masked men were responsible for the murder but forced him to
    participate at gunpoint.

    Tibbetts’ homicide became a hot-button political issue.

    Bahena Rivera, a farmhand, led investigators to Tibbetts’ body
    in a Brooklyn, Iowa, cornfield nearly one month after she went
    jogging July 18, 2018, and vanished.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-convicted-murdering- iowa-student-mollie-tibbetts-sentenced-life-prison-n1278038

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