A Solano County Superior Court docket choose vacated a September preliminary listening to date and scheduled a November one for a brother and sister charged in connection to the late-October killing of a 19-year-old Carmel lady in Fairfield.
Court docket data present that Jessica Yesenia Quintanilla, 21, and Marco Antonio Quintanilla, 27, each of Pittsburg, appeared Thursday in Division 11, the place Choose William J. Pendergast ordered them to return at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 7 for the listening to within the Justice Middle in Fairfield.
Pendergast additionally scheduled a prehearing matter, a readiness convention, at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 14.
The Quintanillas’ newest courtroom date comes after their preliminary arraignment was beforehand scheduled on Nov. 4 final yr, when the protection counsel on the time requested a rescheduling to herald a personal legal professional the household had employed. The choose granted the request.
Jessica is represented by San Francisco-based legal professional William Alan Welch. She is being held with out bail on first-degree homicide expenses in Solano County Jail in Fairfield.
Marco, who's represented by San Francisco legal professional Laurie D. Savill, is charged with being an adjunct within the case and violating his parole related to a felony conviction for tried homicide. He was beforehand being held on the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield on $50,000 bail, however, on Feb. 2, he posted bail on the parole cost and was launched.
Court docket data present that Jessica beforehand was represented by the Public Defender. Marco was represented by the Alternate Public Defender. They've entered not-guilty pleas.
On Oct. 30, the Fairfield Police Division acquired a lacking particular person report for Leilani Beauchamp, 19, who was final seen leaving a Halloween occasion in Sacramento earlier that morning with two active-duty airmen from Travis Air Power Base who had been residing off-base on Cascade Lane in Fairfield.
Fairfield officers labored with Travis AFB’s Workplace of Particular Investigations and the Monterey County Sheriff’s Workplace, as Beauchamp’s stays had been later found in Salinas.
Lt. Jausiah Jacobsen, the Fairfield Police Division’s public info officer on the time, stated warrants had been issued to look the Cascade Lane residence on Oct. 31.
Police investigators ended up arresting three in reference to the killing: the Quintanillas and Juan Parra-Peralta, 20 on the time, one of many airmen who lived in the home.
Court docket data present that Parra-Peralta was not charged within the case and isn't in custody. The second airman Beauchamp left with has not been publicly recognized and was not arrested.
Solano County Chief Deputy District Legal professional Paul Sequeira informed reporters after Nov. 2 proceedings that the killing could have stemmed from a “love triangle state of affairs” because the investigation continued.
On the time, Jacobsen stated it had not been confirmed how all of the events knew one another.
Final yr, officers on the Travis AFB’s Public Affairs Workplace wouldn't touch upon specifics of Parra-Peralta’s involvement within the case or his standing on the base, issuing a short assertion that the investigation was being dealt with by the Fairfield Police Division.