Crime & Safety
Capitola Homicide Hearing Pushed Back
Marcos Chavez's day in court will come a month later than expected.
The wait continues for progress in the case of the homicide of Ronald "Aaron" Carpenter, the 36-year-old man who was .
Marcos Chavez, 23, who is accused of the homicide, was , but Assistant District Attorney Celia Rowland has told Capitola-Soquel Patch that the court date has been pushed back to May 21. The continuation of the hearing comes after a judge determined that the public defender's office had a conflict of interest in the case. Tom Wallraff is now representing Chavez.
At 10:45 p.m. on Dec. 11, Chavez and Carpenter were together in Chavez's Virgil Lane apartment when Carpenter was stabbed to death. According to the Coroner's Office, Carpenter, died of a
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Receipts show the men were out dining and drinking earlier in the night, but little else is known about the events that led up to the stabbing.
Christie Chavez, Marcos Chavez's mother, spoke to Patch in December about the case and
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Click here to see all of our coverage of the case. Stay tuned to Patch for continued coverage of Capitola's first homicide in nearly a decade.
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