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Coral Gable High School Sr

Coral Gable High School Sr

Posted on: December 02, 2011 - 1:19 pm
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Rodriguez’s defense attorneys had argued that their client acted in self-defense when he stabbed Rivera.

“This kid went through hell before he got here and now he’s back into hell and sentencing him to life would be cruel and unusual punishment,” attorney Alexander Michaels said. “I beg the court to sentence him to no more than 20 years.”

“He’s the best thing that happened in my life. He’s a good son.  He’s not an assassin.  It was a fist fight at school.  There was no security to separate them.  My grandson never meant to kill anyone, he was being held in a choke hold,” said Rodriguez’s grandmother Elsa Alfonso.

Prosecutors countered that Rodriguez killed Rivera in a jealous rage after his ex-girlfriend, Daimilsis Salgado, befriended him.

“There is nothing to celebrate today. The sentencing of Andy Rodriguez is a double-tragedy,” the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said in a statement. “A deadly anger by a jealous young man sadly ended the life of Juan Carlos Rivera and has ruined two families.”

Rivera’s mother finished her plea for Judge Tunis to give Rodriguez life in prison with the following words:

“Your honor, nothing can bring my son back to me. It is my most sincere hope that this court sentences Andy Rodriguez to life in prison. This is not easy for me to say. I understand that he is a young man, and that his family is destroyed as well. However, he made the most brutal and awful choice and he must live with the consequences of his actions. As I will never have my son again, he should never be a free man again.

In addition to the sentence, after his prison term, Rodriguez must also talk to kids about the dangers of youth violence.

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