Attorneys for one of the illegal migrants who is accused of killing a 12-year-old Texas girl are seeking a protective order against negative media attention in the case.
In the protective order filing, which was obtained by Fox News, attorneys for Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, one of the two men who have been charged with strangling Jocelyn Nungaray and leaving her dead in a creek, argued that “extra-judicial statements” that are made to the press would probably “produce a result of undue prejudice.”
“The additional extra-judicial statements to the news media are likely to produce a result of undue prejudice in the community to deprive the Defendant of a fair trial guaranteed by Article I of the Texas Constitution and the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution,” the attorney’s wrote in the motion, according to the outlet.
In the documents, statements made by Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, such as, “[M]make no mistake, this is a horrific crime,” and “the immigration system is broken,” were referenced by attorneys for Pena Ramos, according to Fox News.
Pena Ramos’s attorney claimed in the filing that Ogg had “made numerous statements about the case that went beyond the statements of the prosecutor during the probable cause hearing,” according to the outlet. […]
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