Bexar County District Attorney-elect Joe Gonzales said he will conduct a “full investigation†into how prosecutors handled the murder trial of Mexican Mafia associate Gabriel Moreno, who was acquitted last week in the beating and suffocation death of a drug dealer in 2014.
In a case already notorious for its gruesome details — the victim’s body was dismembered and burned on a barbecue grill — and its motley cast of prosecution witnesses, a less sensational legal matter captured the attention of courthouse insiders.