Death penalty sought at trial for killer in Fontana robbery
Earl Eugene Rose has shown a pattern of violent conduct and lack of care for his victims that culminated in the deadly shooting of a 15-year-old girl in a 1998 Fontana robbery, say prosecutors.
Deputy District Attorney Cary Epstein also told a jury Monday that when they hear evidence for and against the death penalty for Rose, they will see evidence that supports the state's ultimate punishment outweighs the latter.
"The only appropriate punishment is the death penalty," Epstein said, during his opening remarks in the next phase of Rose's trial.
The same jury found Rose guilty in December of murder in the death of Nora Rodriguez as well as shooting and wounding the girl's aunt and uncle during a robbery at a Ceres Avenue business in Fontana.
Now prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Rose. But defense lawyers say Rose is not among "the worst of the worst" and is better served by spending the rest of his life in state prison without the possibility of parole.
Deputy Public Defender John Zitny told jurors that they need to look at a person's entire life and can't just reach inside a person to execute the bad parts.
"When you execute someone, you execute the whole person," Zitny said.
Jurors will hear a whole new set of testimony, loaded with aggravating and mitigating factors, then render a verdict in the next couple of weeks.
The prosecutor told jurors that Rose began a pattern of several robberies in 1993 in Los Angeles County until he was convicted the following year. Rose assaulted his victims and took cash, wallets and credit cards.
The defendant was released from prison in 1998, and three months later, he robbed and shot a Fontana man in his driveway. Rose then robbed Luis and Ana Rodriguez, who were with Nora, of cash and a watch at the Ceres Avenue business.
"But as you heard, that wasn't enough," Epstein told the jury. "Because he still proceeded to shoot that entire family."
Nora had lived in Mexico, and the teenager was with the Rodriguezs only five days before she was killed.
Luis Rodriguez testified Monday that he and his now ex-wife had visited their niece in Tijuana many times before she joined them in Fontana.
The teenager had lived with her mother, who was deaf and mute, and her grandmother. Her father was killed in a crash. The Rodriguez family had hoped to give Nora an education and a better life.
"She was a very good kid," Luis Rodriguez said. "She deserved the opportunity."
Luis Rodriguez said he suffered a lasting injury to his face and jaw because of the shooting, and he doesn't think he will ever be the same.
Defense lawyers for Rose pointed to his upbringing as reason for sparing his life. Rose's mother was 17, an alcoholic and drug user when she had him. The defendant's father was also 17, a street gambler and used drugs and alcohol.
Zitny told the jury that Rose is bipolar and suffers from schizophrenia. As a child, the defendant was abandoned, abused and grew up in a dingy home that smelled of stale alcohol.
"He was abandoned as a child, days at a time," Zitny said. "Sometimes weeks at a time."
In prison, a guard recommended Rose to a psychiatrist who put him on medications for mental illness, said Zitny. When Rose left prison, he stopped using the medications.
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