Riverside County Superior Court Judge Jerry Yang scheduled a sentencing hearing for Jan. 9 at the Riverside Hall of Justice and ordered Martinez held without bail at the nearby Robert Presley Jail.
Luis Alfonso Martinez, 43, of La Quinta, is charged with two counts each of lewd acts on a minor and oral copulation of a child under 10 years old, as well as one count each of committing multiple lewd acts on an underage victim and distributing explicit material to a minor.
The killing of Shanquella Robinson is being investigated as a femicide, an unfamiliar term for many in the United States as this gender-motivated crime has not been defined by US legislation despite being a global issue.
“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” from Alejandro González Iñárritu is a stirring and profound examination of a man having an existential crisis. The word itself is a Buddhist term that means the plane between death and reincarnation. That man is played by Daniel Giménez Cacho and his Ximena Lamadrid stars as his daughter.
The federal government announced Tuesday the Colorado River will operate in a Tier 2 shortage condition for the first time starting in January as the West’s historic drought has taken a severe toll on Lake Mead.
