A jury found Mexican Mafia associate Gabriel Moreno not guilty of murder Wednesday in the death of a heroin-dealing rival, surprising many in the courtroom who believed the case’s savage details including the incineration of the victim’s dismembered body parts on a barbecue grill would guarantee a different outcome. It was Moreno’s second trial for […]

Rarely, if ever, do prosecutors take the witness stand to defend their trial tactics in order to prevent a mistrial, but that’s how things played out Thursday in the retrial of Gabriel Moreno, accused of murder in the 2014 killing of Jose Luis Menchaca. Defense attorney Albert Gutierrez Jr. had accused Bexar County prosecutors of […]