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| Astorga Finds Trouble in Prison |
| By abqjournal.com |
| Published: 08/17/2011 |
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Michael Paul Astorga, who faces either life imprisonment or the death penalty for the murder of Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputy James McGrane Jr., is still working off internal discipline imposed for misconduct in prison while his case has been pending. Since his arrest in 2006 on the McGrane murder charges, Astorga has logged 20 disciplinary write-ups and been found guilty by a hearing officer of all but one, which was dismissed. The hearing officer’s ruling is appealable to the prison warden. About half of Astorga’s offenses are classified as major violations of prison policy and the other half as minor, according to a disciplinary history provided by the Department of Corrections. In 2009, a prison hearing officer found Astorga guilty of battery, failure to follow published rules, unauthorized use of institutional equipment and tattooing or possession of tattoo paraphernalia. The battery charge resulted from Astorga spitting on an officer after Astorga “became angry about order in which he was being taken back from recreation toward his cell.” He was placed in disciplinary segregation for 30 days for that violation. Astorga had no disciplinary actions in 2010, the year in which he went to trial in Albuquerque on the guilt phase of the McGrane murder case. He was convicted by a jury of shooting McGrane during a traffic stop. Read More. |
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