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| S.D. Inmate Asks to Get Death Penalty if Convicted of Killing Cellmate |
| By Associated Press/Argus Leader |
| Published: 03/31/2003 |
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A South Dakota state prison inmate, who is charged with killing his cellmate, has asked again for the death penalty if a jury convicts him. Christopher Michael Fonseca has been charged with killing Andrew L. Young, 23, who was found dead last July at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in the cell he shared with Fonseca. Fonseca made a similar request earlier this month. Minnehaha County Circuit Court Judge Joe Neiles denied the earlier request as well as the request Fonseca made Wednesday during a motion hearing. 'This whole thing is a joke,' Fonseca said. 'I'm not going to be a part of it.' Fonseca later said he would refuse to appear in court in the future. Fonseca, who is originally from New York, has been in prison since 1997, serving time on felony charges for issuing bad checks. He is scheduled to be tried in Young's death May 27. Young, of Lakewood, Colo., had been serving a five-year sentence, with two years suspended, for grand theft. He also had faced seven years for escaping from the Yankton Trusty Unit last May. At the time of Young's death, both men were in a disciplinary area of the prison for violating prison rules. |
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