Reply #11: That wasn't the defense ..............

[Tangerine LaBamba]

The defense was that the prosecution had not been able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt which of the defendants had delivered the fatal kick or kicks.

That's why the two boys were tried to together. The defense attorneys were betting that the prosecutor would not be able to pin down exactly who did it.

This murder took place near a park where my mother used to take me when I was a baby. I grew up two blocks from the spot where the man was beaten. I grew up in Shenandoah, and I know it well.

There were a lot of people who expected - and wanted - a conviction. The tensions aren't going to rise now, because the Mexicans who live there, and most of them are there illegally, are going to keep their heads down, because they're afraid.

The Feds, though, have intervened by offering one of the participants, a minor, immunity and a reduced sentence, which he accepted. Yet, he was never called as a witness by the prosecution, which I do not understand.

But, no, the defense was not that they didn't kill them. The defense was that the got into a fight, and that was all..