A Solano County Superior Court docket decide vacated a Might jury trial and plans to reset it in a felony case in opposition to two males charged with a 2018 deadly taking pictures in Vallejo.
Daniel Anthony Road, 36, and Costello Blackwell, 47, who on March 25 appeared in Division 1 for proceedings upfront of their beforehand scheduled Might 11 trial, heard Choose Jeffrey C. Kauffman as an alternative schedule them for a brand new trial setting at 9 a.m. June 21 within the Justice Middle in Fairfield.
Blackwell, of Vallejo, in an earlier trial was convicted and sentenced for attempting to kill a possible witness. He obtained 52 years to life for tried homicide.
He and Road stay in Solano County Jail custody, accused of the Feb. 10, 2018, homicide of Daryl Huckaby, 47.
Protection legal professional Terry Ray represents Road, a former Hercules resident. Protection legal professional David Nelson represents Blackwell. Deputy District Legal professional Invoice Ainsworth leads the prosecution.
Blackwell was discovered responsible in March 2020 for attempting to kill Teiquon Cortez, 29 on the time, on Nov. 5, 2018, additionally in Vallejo.
In the course of the tried homicide trial, Cortez mentioned he witnessed Blackwell, a co-worker at Vallejo shifting agency Royal Transport, fireplace one shot from a handgun, the bullet putting and killing Huckaby, who was in an RV that later crashed on Tuolumne Road.
Months later, on Nov. 1, Blackwell reportedly went to Cortez’s dwelling quarters behind the shifting firm and shot him twice with a shotgun, wounding him.
In the course of the trial, Deputy District Legal professional Andrew Wooden offered greater than a dozen witnesses, together with Vallejo police investigators, physicians, cellphone tower consultants, and at the least one one that aided Cortez after he was shot.
Cortez testified that he walked throughout the road to a Shell fuel station, the place, bleeding profusely from the shotgun blasts to his left elbow and again, he obtained first-aid earlier than Vallejo paramedics and cops arrived.
Throughout courtroom testimony, an investigator for the protection, Eugene Borghello, mentioned Cortez instructed him throughout a Solano County Jail interview in January 2019 that Blackwell shot him twice with a shotgun for “threatening Mr. Blackwell’s spouse.”
Cortez additionally instructed Borghello, of the Particular Investigations Group in Fairfield, that he was in a automotive with Blackwell when the defendant shot Huckaby.
After his tried homicide conviction, Blackwell additionally confronted a courtroom trial — throughout which the decide, not a jury, makes a remaining determination primarily based on proof and legal professional arguments — on his alleged prior strikes.
It's unclear how Road is linked to Huckaby’s homicide.
If convicted at trial for Huckaby’s demise, Road and Blackwell face 25 years to life in jail on the cost, and sure extra time every for prior convictions and enhancements.