According to the witnesses, a few people yelled fk yall ns and shoot em. When someone from the party said, There are kids here, a person from the convoy yelled, Well shoot those bastards, too., The SPLC also reported that after the party (but long before the grand jury indictments), a Respect The Flag sympathizer posted on Facebook that Trust me the last thing you want is a bunch of pissed off rednecks in jacked up trucks and Confederate flags flying to mess up that pretty lawn. At the sentencing hearing, Assistant DA David Emadi told the judge that They repeatedly yelled death threats saying they were going to killing all the N-. According to court testimony, Kayla Rae Norton, 25, and Jose Ismael Torres, 26, were acting as part of a group that called themselves Respect the Flag. On July 24 You may return and deliberate." They used racial slurs and threatened to kill some of the party goers. Debevoise Is Ready. I forgive you. Jose Torres & Kayla Norton: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. The children at the party heard and saw much of the altercation. Jose Ismael Torres was arrested Monday by Altamonte Springs police in a Volusia County hotel room. Jose Ismael TORRES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. 243, 247 (2) (a) (756 SE2d 322) (2014) (citation and punctuation omitted). [3] See Subar v. State, 309 Ga. 805, 809 (2) (848 SE2d 109) (2020) (where indictment was sufficient to survive a general demurrer, trial counsels failure to file such a meritless motion could not be deemed deficient performance); Bradford v. State, 327 Ga. App. Torres asserts, without any citation to authority, that threatening to shoot an individual does not constitute a threat suggesting the death of the threatened victims. All right? There were no objections to the courts decision. The court first reminded the jury that three offenses were charged in the indictment: aggravated assault, terroristic threats, and a violation of the Georgia Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. There is no hate crime law; Torres and Kayla Norton were convicted under the Street Gang Terrorism Act. Jose Ismael Torres, 26, will spend 13 years in prison; Kayla Rae Norton, 25, is to serve six years, Atlanta news outlets report. 0000016806 00000 n Rosalind Bentley is an award-winning feature writer focusing on culture, arts and sometimes food, as they are expressed and experienced in Atlanta. at 881-882(II), 808 S.E.2d 681. This is behaviour that even supporters of the Confederate battle flag can agree is criminal and shouldnt be allowed, Douglas County District Attorney Brian Fortner said in a statement. 46 0 obj Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. Write to Joseph Hincks at joseph.hincks@time.com. Dyer v. State, 167 Ga.App. 0000000017 00000 n If that trigger would have gone off there would have been dead bodies all over that yard, Alford said. That was not lost on Alford, who works as a childrens mental health advocate. A trial court has a duty to recharge the jury on issues for which the jury requests a recharge. Dozier v. State, 306 Ga. 29, 32 (3) (829 SE2d 131) (2019) (citation and punctuation omitted). But if youre driving around waving Confederate flags and using the N-word everywhere you go, then theres only one way to interpret that.. I forgive you. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? The pair had joined a group called Respect the Flag that drunkenly drove around Georgias Douglas and Paulding counties over two days in July 2015. After the jurors returned to deliberate, the trial court asked counsel whether counsel had any concerns or objections. 2. Here, "the jury asked for a charge upon a specific point [ the definitions of the offenses ] and the jury was charged upon that point." Alford said Torres and Norton should have pleaded guilty. She was even used to hearing the type of slurs hurled at her and her guests. According to trial counsel, he did not believe that a general demurrer would be meritorious because the defense knew what [they] were dealing with and knew who those specific people were. Count 4 of Torress indictment alleged the essential elements of the offense, tracked the language of the terroristic threats statute, and sufficiently placed Torres on notice of the crime with which he was charged and against which he was required to defend. Id. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case. 310, 311 (3) (306 SE2d 313) (1983) (citations and punctuation omitted). This is perfect for attorneys licensed in multiple jurisdictions or for attorneys that have fulfilled their CLE requirement but need to access resourceful information for their practice areas. Isnt it time we heard from UGAs Kirby Smart? Law.com Compass includes access to our exclusive industry reports, combining the unmatched expertise of our analyst team with ALMs deep bench of proprietary information to provide insights that cant be found anywhere else. Two others, Thomas Charles Summers and Lacey Paul Henderson II, had pleaded guilty to terroristic threat and battery charges prior to Monday. Kayla Rae Norton and her partner, Jose Ismael Torres, both wept copiously as Douglas County Judge William McClain passed sentence. /Type /Catalog 565, 569 (1) (b) (845 SE2d 305) (2020) (citation and punctuation omitted). On Monday morning, judge William McClain sentenced Torres to 20 years in jail, with a mandatory minimum of 13 years. A man convicted of terrorizing a child's birthday party with racial slurs is asking a judge for bond. A general demurrer challenges the validity of an indictment by asserting that the substance of the indictment is legally insufficient to charge any crime, and it should be granted only when an indictment is absolutely void in that it fails to charge the accused with any act made a crime by the law. Poole v. State, 326 Ga. App. It was when they pulled them guns and said Im gonna shoot the little bastards.. A jury found Jose Ismael Torres guilty of making terroristic threats, criminal street gang activity, and three counts of aggravated assault. Magazines, Digital Docket Number: A21A1148: Decision Date: C. J., MCFADDEN, P. J., and SENIOR APPELLATE JUDGE PHIPPS . @FOX5Atlanta pic.twitter.com/Dz2QWT2tBP Portia Bruner (@PortiaFOX5) February 27, 2017 In July 2015, just weeks after the Charleston church massacre, a large group of. endobj Also we would like the map display. At issue here is how the trial court handled the request for the definitions of the charges. After discussing the request with the attorneys, the trial court informed counsel, Ill just read the charges to them again slowly and carefully. Torres and Norton were sentenced on one count each of making terroristic threats and violating Georgias street gang act; Torres was also convicted of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. On Monday, Superior Court Judge William McClain, who described the pairs actions as being motivated by racial hatred, sentenced Torres to 20 years, with 13 to serve in prison, and Norton to 15, with six to serve. . The statute at that time contained no misdemeanor provisions. See Hulett v. State, 296 Ga. 49, 60 (5) (766 SE2d 1) (2014) (an ineffectiveassistance claim is a mixed question of law and fact, and we accept the trial courts factual findings unless clearly erroneous and independently apply the law to those facts); see also Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668, 698 (IV) (104 SCt 2052, 80 LE2d 674) (1984). Torres, 26, and Norton, 25, have three children between them. Norton was sentenced to 15 years, with a minimum of six to serve. PHIPPS, Senior Appellate Judge. Torres appeals following the denial of his motion for a new trial. Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. In fact, Torres's trial counsel specifically testified at the hearing on Torres's motion for a new trial that he did not file a general demurrer because although the indictment did not name a specific person, one or more video recordings showed several persons at the party. Making a lesser penalty applicable to offenses committed prior to the enactment of the legislation creating the lesser penalty is contrary to the judicial interpretation of the laws of this State under which the penalty for a criminal offense relates only to those offenses committed when and after such legislation becomes effective. RELATED: Racist threats outside black child's party lead to prison sentence. Torress counsel stated: As I understood the question, they were asking about the 18page document. FindLaw.com Free, trusted legal information for consumers and legal professionals, SuperLawyers.com Directory of U.S. attorneys with the exclusive Super Lawyers rating, Abogado.com The #1 Spanish-language legal website for consumers, LawInfo.com Nationwide attorney directory and legal consumer resources. Copyright 2023 ALM Global, LLC. The majority of police officers visible in the initial birthday-party cellphone video were white. . An indictment shall be deemed sufficiently technical and correct to withstand a general demurrer if it states the offense in the terms and language of [the Georgia] Code or so plainly that the nature of the offense charged may easily be understood by the jury. State v. Grube, 293 Ga. 257, 260 (2) (744 SE2d 1) (2013). The trial court recharged those definitions and repeatedly ensured that the jurors understood the recharge. 361 Ga.App. WebGet free access to the complete judgment in Torres v. State on CaseMine. They waved Confederate flags from pickup trucks, made armed threats against black motorists, and hurled racial epithets at attendees to the 8-year-olds birthday party, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. All right?" The industry-leading media platform offering competitive intelligence to prepare for today and anticipate opportunities for future success. Please try again. In order to establish that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective, Torres must show that his attorney's performance was deficient and that he was prejudiced by the deficient performance. << /Linearized 1 Confederate flag supporters at the South Carolina capitol. Dynamically explore and compare data on law firms, companies, individual lawyers, and industry trends. Torres contends that his trial counsel should have filed a general demuurer to Count 4 of the indictment the terroristic threats charge because the indictment did not name a specific victim in that count. See id. IE 11 is not supported. Join Facebook to connect with Jose Ismael Torres and others you may know. WebThe Appellate Case Inquiry System contains the register of actions for cases brought before the Kansas Supreme Court and the Kansas Court of Appeals. Davis v. State, 306 Ga. 140, 144(3), 829 S.E.2d 321 (2019). Web3/16/2023 6534034 chavarria jose 3/16/2023 6538208 diaz henry 3/16/2023 6516693 divine mark 3/16/2023 6538167 geghamyan hovhannes 3/16/2023 6540374 gonzalez luis Two others had earlier pleaded guilty to similar charges and received lesser sentences. ', Black Man Says Group Assaulted Him, Said 'Get a Noose' and 2 People Hit with Car at Protest, 2 Men Charged After Pinning Black Man to Tree in Indiana Incident Captured on Viral Video, Dylann Roof Sentenced to Death for Killing 9 Black People in Charleston Church. Prosecutors acknowledge that Norton was not one of riders who pointed shotguns at the group, but prosecutors say that she hurled menacing threats while yelling a racial epithet. at 248(2)(a), 756 S.E.2d 322 (an indictment charging terroristic threats without specifying the "crime of violence" that had been threatened tracked the language of the statute and was not fatally defective). Officers and supervisors at the scene determined that it was prudent to get both sides of the story and gather more evidence, rather than making hasty decisions that ultimately could have jeopardized the case. Accordingly, the trial court did not err in sentencing Torres on his terroristic threats conviction. They even threatened to kill children at the party. Torres asserts, without any citation to authority, that threatening to shoot an individual does not constitute a threat suggesting the death of the threatened victims. stream /L 101483 The court responded: I respectfully disagree, and I told yall ahead of time what I was going to do, and there was no issue, and this is sort of an afterthefact objection, as far as thats concerned. The investigation included a review of thousands of Facebook pages that identified members of the Respect the Flag as white supremacists who discussed attending Ku Klux Klan rallies, joining a skinhead group and made derogatory remarks about black people, Fortner said. TORRES v. THE STATE. Jose Ismael TORRES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. Although the jurors' note contained a parenthetical reference to the "18-page document" that comprised all jury instructions, the note specifically requested "the definitions of the charges." Stewart v. State, 246 Ga. 70, 72(2), 268 S.E.2d 906 (1980); accord Poole, 326 Ga. App. [4] 3. We conclude that the terroristic threats count in this case was not fatally defective for failing to specify the names of the victims. The trial court recharged the jury as to elements of a crime, the State's burden of proof, and the definitions of the charged offenses. Rickman, C. J., and McFadden, P. J., concur. 0000006358 00000 n Judge to defendants: "It's inexplicable to me that you weren't arrested by the police that day." All Rights Reserved. at 394(2), 819 S.E.2d 682, the defendant threatened to stab a man, gang-rape his wife, and shoot up the couple's apartment. See id. EpiPens dont work in space? Both wept as the sentences were handed down Monday in Douglas County, west of Atlanta. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. Also on Facebook, Norton promised not to snitch on Torres or anyone else involved in the two-day spree. We find no error and affirm Torress convictions. AFFIRMED; REMANDED for correction of scrivener's error. Poole v. State, 326 Ga.App. /H [ 831 681 ] Get a roundup of the most important and intriguing national stories delivered to your inbox every weekday. Case No. The jurors made reference to an 18page document, and the reason they did was because I told them during the [full jury] charge, this is going to take awhile, this things 18 pages long, but their question was more specifically targeted at definition of the crimes, which is what they asked for and thats what they got, so I dont think Im required to give them more than what they asked for, but if they had asked for what youre asking for, I certainly wouldve given it to them. Jose Ismael Torres, 26, and Kayla Rae Norton, 25, (pictured above) were first arrested and convicted earlier in the month under a street gang terrorism law for the 2015 incident. 3. This Court affirmed the five-year sentences imposed for each terroristic threat, concluding that each threat "suggest[ed] the death of the husband and wife." See Hulett v. State, 296 Ga. 49, 60(5), 766 S.E.2d 1 (2014) (an ineffective-assistance claim is a mixed question of law and fact, and we accept the trial court's factual findings unless clearly erroneous and independently apply the law to those facts); see also Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 698(IV), 104 S.Ct. 210, 213 (2) (699 SE2d 392) (2010) (indictment survived general demurrer because it both tracked the language of the statute and described the acts constituting the offense sufficiently to put the defendant on notice of the offense with which he was charged). Summers is serving four years in prison and Henderson is serving two. 0000000831 00000 n Here, Count 4 alleged that Torres threaten[ed] to shoot the victims attending the party. Example video title will go here for this video. Pick up PEOPLEs special edition True Crime Stories: Cases That Shocked America, on sale now, for the latest on Casey Anthony, JonBent Ramsey and more. Widner, 280 Ga. at 677 (2) (citation and punctuation omitted). at 247 (2) (citation and punctuation omitted). Torres was allegedly in one of several trucks covered in Confederate flags that drove around Paulding and Douglas counties intimidating people who passed by. Dyer v. State, 167 Ga. App. Only four were charged with felonies. I am not a mean spirited person and Im sorry for your family that it had to come this far.. See Bautista v. State, 305 Ga.App. Davis v. State, 306 Ga. 140, 144 (3) (829 SE2d 321) (2019). To meet the second prong, there must be a reasonable probability that, absent counsel's errors, the outcome of the trial would have been different. The two had been part of a group of 15 people calling itself Respect the Flag. On July 24, on 2015, they began a rampage through neighboring Paulding County. 84, 88-89 (3) (842 SE2d 532) (2020). Stay up-to-date with how the law affects your life. Well kill all the little (racial epithet)s.. Two days after the party, on July 27, 2015, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that authorities were investigating the videos to determine if anything illegal happened. They repeatedly yelled death threats saying they were going to killing all the n, Assistant District Attorney David Emadi said in court. I accept responsibility for what I did, but that was not me. WSB-TVs coverage also quoted Norton as saying, The worst decision Ive ever made in my life was to not walk away when I had the chance. The constitutional purpose for identifying the victim is to apprise the defendant of the charges against him. 149. A man and woman were sentenced to 13 and six years in prison for joining a group of Confederate flag supporters who threatened a Georgia community. There were no objections to the court's decision. So your exception is noted and overruled. Other members of Respect the Flag pleaded guilty and received lesser sentences. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case. 0000017752 00000 n % PHIPPS, Senior Appellate Judge. Web69,783 court search results for people named "Jose Torres" in the United States. Jose Ismael Torres was arrested Monday by Altamonte Springs police in a Volusia County hotel room. Two people have been jailed for their role in ruining a black child's birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs and armed threats. Mother-to-mother, I cant imagine what it was like to explain what that word means to a child. Were going to kill some (racial epithet)s today, Emadi said, quoting witnesses present during the standoff. 45 20 Norton and Torres were charged with aggravated assault, making terroristic treats and violating the Georgia Street Gang Act. Hood v. State, 292 Ga.App. Moreover, Torres elaborates no arguments suggesting that the recharge, as a whole, was an incorrect statement of the law or that it would mislead a jury of ordinary intelligence. Georgia couple sent to prison for terrorizing black childs birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs. Contact an Account Specialist [emailprotected] | +1-855-808-4530 (Americas) | +44(0) 800 098 86009 (UK & Europe), Perkins Coie Lays Off 58 Business Professionals, Cravath Set for English Law Debut with Shearman Double Partner Hire, Early Reports: 2023 Am Law 200 Financials, Proskauer Lands Cooley Strategy Leader in New C-Suite Role, AI Has Gone Mainstream. In Christian, 347 Ga. App. 0000004744 00000 n In addition, even assuming that the new statutory language applied at the time of Torres's sentencing in 2017, that language also authorizes a five-year sentence under the circumstances presented in this case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. We, therefore, remand for the trial court to make the correction in the written sentence. Strickland, 466 U.S. at 687 (III). Where the jury, after having been charged by the court, returns into court and requests an instruction upon a specific question, it is not error for the judge to confine his instruction to the specific point suggested by the jurys inquiry. Id. Elizabeth Dalia Racine , Sean Garrett , Aimee Fatemeh Sobhani , for Appellee. Before sentencing, Norton spoke directly to the family members who were at the party. The two were found guilty in Mother-to-mother, I cant imagine what it was like to explain what that word means to a child. Norton, the mother of three children younger than 9, was facing so much prison time that her children would be different people when their mother got out. The sentencing comes in the aftermath of the recent sentencing of white supremacist, Dylan Roof who had massacred nine African-Americans at a Charleston church, with the youth using the Confederate flag as a symbol on his Learn more about FindLaws newsletters, including our terms of use and privacy policy. 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