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| Death row inmate dies of complications from cancer |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/03/2005 |
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A Kern County, Calif., man who has spent more than 17 years on death row for killing his girlfriend and her 14-year-old son died Wednesday of complications from cancer, prison officials said. Hells Angel motorcyclist Robert Garceau was convicted for the 1984 stabbing deaths of girlfriend Maureen Bautista and her son, Telesforo Bautista, both of North Hollywood. According to trial testimony, Garceau buried the bodies in cement in the backyard of a fellow drug dealer's house in San Luis Obispo County and claimed that his drug-dealing friends, not him, killed the two. Garceau was subsequently sent to death row at San Quentin State Prison outside San Francisco in 1987. He was also serving a sentence of 33-years-to-life for the killing of a fellow drug dealer. His double-murder conviction and death sentence were overturned in 2001, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the lower court judge provided prejudicial jury instructions. The jury heard testimony about the murder of the drug dealer, and the judge incorrectly instructed the panel on how to analyze the evidence, the appeals court ruled. The judge told the jury to consider Garceau's prior murder conviction for "any purpose." However, last year the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to the 9th Circuit for further review. The case was still pending. Garceau was transported to Novato Community Hospital on Dec. 14 after becoming ill, said San Quentin spokesman Sgt. Eric Messick. |
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