Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Judging Crimes

Criminal Law

: Judging Crimes

436. Astorga

By Joel Jacobsen

On Friday, Michael Astorga was convicted of murdering Deputy Sheriff James McGrane in an Albuquerque courtroom.  I wrote about Astorga in the not-quite-published book Whatever Happened to Justice?  This is what I wrote a couple years ago, updated to reflect developments since then: I worked on a case involving the Astorga brothers, Michael and Matthew.  They did something to irritate a drug dealer named Jose Maldonado Sigala, street-named Chemo.  Chemo shot up a truck belonging to one of them.  So they armed themselves with a sawed-off shotgun and spent five hours hunting their tormentor.  When they finally found him, Matthew blasted him five times at very close range.  It worked.  At trial, their story was that Chemo somehow got the drop on Michael and was about to shoot him in the head...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on June 06, 2010 (boomark / email).