Jack Lawrence
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He then heads back to his office, chucks the photos on his desk, and an informant of his, who is collecting money for other information he's provided, sees them and tells Rivard that Junior was the one he overheard bragging about the killing.
Victim's partner, Ophelia Gonzalez, who has been unable to pick anyone out from a lineup so far, is then subsequently shown another lineup and is this time able to pick Junior from the photos as the person she says she sees the night of the shooting.
Junior is then arrested and charged with murder.
Did you get given a public defender?
Even if you understand English as your first language, like I read a lot of motions and stuff like that and legal terms, and I have to read it like seven, eight times over because I'm like, I don't get it.
So for a 15-year-old and then also your dad who's originally from Mexico, it must have just been impossible.
As we know, during his interrogations, Junior is asked to explain where he was at the time of this shooting.
After a process of working his way back through important details, he remembers being in his local store, a place he would go almost daily with friends to grab a burrito and hang out.
He says that while there, the lady working behind the counter, who he and his friends were friendly with, mentions the shooting to them.
She just got a call from her mother, who lives nearby.
Detectives would speak with this lady from the store who would back up Junior's story and say that yes, she remembers Junior and his friends being in the store when she got the call.
She says, and I quote, he did not look like someone who had just shot somebody.
He was eating a burrito and drinking a pop.
Now, there were suggestions that Junior could have shot the victim then ran to the store for an alibi.
And to that, the store workers said that the shooting was on the other side of town from where they were.
She testifies at Junior's trial and is asked the following questions.