Officer Dead offender given probation.

[Crimsn1]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7092118

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A young man who pleaded guilty to the murder of an elderly woman has received probation.
Raziel Munoz was sentenced to 10 years of probation for the murder of 78-year-old Velia Ortega. The sentence was reached due to a plea deal.

Munoz was the getaway driver in the July 2008 drive-by shooting. Earlier this week, Bruno Avilas and Andrew Garcia were tried and convicted for the murder. Avilas was sentenced to 99 years, while Garcia was sentenced to 70 years.

Ortega died a few weeks after the shooting. She was Houston's first female Hispanic police officer.

Tell me this DA is going to hoist himself on his own petard!

[David Hineline]

Limited information but I assume he witnessed against the shooters? If this man is truly a punk then he will violate probation and get his 10yrs re-instated. So if he makes it 5yrs ok on probation and then fails, does he get cretit for the 5yrs time served or does he get the full 10 after he did the 5 probation. Just wondered how that works.

[MCAPO]

Limited information but I assume he witnessed against the shooters? If this man is truly a punk then he will violate probation and get his 10yrs re-instated. So if he makes it 5yrs ok on probation and then fails, does he get cretit for the 5yrs time served or does he get the full 10 after he did the 5 probation. Just wondered how that works.

No. Whatever the amount of time served on probation does not apply to probation violation or a new charge (if said punk does break the law again) - for whatever pre-sentence time he does serve in jail before his court hearings are the only things applied as well as his new charge and a jail term if he served some time in addition.

[Raiden]

No. Whatever the amount of time served on probation does not apply to probation violation or a new charge (if said punk does break the law again) - for whatever pre-sentence time he does serve in jail before his court hearings are the only things applied as well as his new charge and a jail term if he served some time in addition.

Give him a year or two, he'll make another house call to the local PD and get reacquainted. . . !

[crass cop]

Or perhaps if MS Ortega's grandchildren could get a little street justice...that would be nice too...allegedly
A .308 can do wonders from down the block...hypothetically speaking

[MCAPO]

Give him a year or two, he'll make another house call to the local PD and get reacquainted. . . !

I give it less - we call these guys, back-burners (because they are just placed on the back-burner on the stoves) "waiting to be violated" because of their intelligent decisions

[StainlessSteve]

No doubt he flipped the other two to get them what they deserved, but still! I guess that's just the way the judicial has to roll these days, doesn't mean I understand it or like it. I kind of like the .308 idea, hypothetically speaking you know

[ARSONCOP]

Welcome to Houston. I recently had a FELONY charge dropped to a $50 dollar misd. and time served. This tool served as witness against his partners and when he makes another mistake he will have to serve the entire 10yrs.

[Jenners]

It's not just Houston, I think it's happening everywhere. I had a felony assault (he choked her twice during the assault) get dropped to a misdemeanor and he only got a year probation.