A 52-year-old Martinez man accused of an April 2022 killing in Fairfield and a second killing in December in Suisun Metropolis will return for setting proceedings in Might in Solano County Superior Courtroom.
Richard Raymond Klein, who appeared Tuesday in Division 15, heard Choose Robert Bowers schedule a brand new trial-setting date for the primary deadly taking pictures at 9 a.m. Might 9 and a preliminary listening to setting for the second on the identical time within the Justice Constructing in Vallejo.
The modifications within the circumstances’ schedulings come a number of months after Klein appeared in Division 11 in Fairfield, the place Choose William J. Pendergast assigned the arraignment for the second killing to Division 15 and to Bowers.
As beforehand reported, Pendergast, on the Jan. 17 continuing, additionally reinstated no bail for Klein, who was launched from custody Dec. 14 for the primary killing, on bail diminished to $400,000, with a pre-trial providers contract and a GPS ankle monitor. Nevertheless, he was picked up days later in Rosarito, Mexico, by U.S. and Mexican legislation enforcement officers and returned to Solano County Jail in Fairfield, the place he stays. He's accused of the April 21 deadly taking pictures of Anthony Fuimaono, 56. Klein additionally faces the cost of being a felon in possession of a firearm in that case.
Police data present that round 11:30 p.m., a gaggle had gathered outdoors a house within the 300 block of Manzanita Avenue.
An investigation revealed that an argument occurred between the 2 males and weapons had been drawn, police stated. Fuimaono was shot in the course of the chaos.
An unidentified girl was driving Fuimaono to the hospital when officers arrived on the scene to analyze experiences of the taking pictures, officers stated. They noticed her car leaving and pulled her over. The wounded Fuimaono was discovered and later transported to an area hospital, the place he died within the early hours of April 22.
On Might 5, Klein appeared in Division 11 in Fairfield for an arraignment on the fees. Solano County District Legal professional’s Workplace filed its legal grievance on Might 5.
If convicted at trial for the April killing, Klein, who was convicted of a felony in 2006 in Contra Costa County, faces 25 years to life for the homicide and sure extra time for utilizing a firearm and being a beforehand convicted felon.
For the second case, Vallejo-based legal protection lawyer Dustin M. Gordon, to whom Pendergast assigned the case, stated in the course of the Jan. 17 continuing that he wanted extra particulars concerning the legal grievance filed within the new case and in addition requested the decide to vacate Klein’s Feb. 25 jury trial for the primary alleged killing, however Pendergast advised Gordon to take up the matter with Bowers, who later vacated the trial date.
Klein is alleged to have fatally shot Matthew Muller, 37, on Dec. 15 in Suisun Metropolis.
Additionally, within the second case, Klein was held on a felony warrant out of Contra Costa County on prices of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of narcotics on the market, possession of a managed substance whereas armed, and possession of a managed substance on the market.
He stays in Solano County Jail with out bail for the homicide allegation and $450,000 in bail on the fees listed within the warrant.
Investigators, working intently with the Solano County District Legal professional’s Workplace and the Main Crimes Activity Pressure, had been capable of determine Klein because the suspect and find him. He was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals and Mexican authorities some days after Dec. 15 in Rosarito.
Additionally, as beforehand reported, in the course of the December proceedings for Klein’s launch, the Solano County District Legal professional’s Workplace objected to the discount in bail, citing the danger to public security, threat to security of the sufferer’s household, seriousness of the cost, Klein’s legal historical past, his prior jail commitments, and that Klein was beforehand a validated member of the Nazi Low Riders, a white supremacist jail and legal avenue gang with origins within the California Youth Authority.
If convicted at trial for the December loss of life of Muller, Klein faces one other 25-years-to-life sentence and sure extra time for utilizing a firearm and being a beforehand convicted felon.