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Murder Of Vanessa Pham By Julio Miguel Blanco-Garcia

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Crime Description This paper will analyze the murder of Vanessa Pham by Julio Miguel Blanco-Garcia. Around 3:30 in the afternoon on June 27, 2010, as Vanessa Pham was leaving a nail salon in Fairfax Plaza Shopping Center when Julio Blanco-Garcia approached her. Blanco-Garcia, high on PCP and carrying his infant daughter, told Pham that he was having a medical emergency and asked her to drive him to the hospital. Vanessa agreed and allowed the two into her car. Not long into the trip to the ER, Vanessa took a wrong turn which roused the suspicions of her drug addled passenger. Convinced that Vanessa intended to turn him in to the police or otherwise wrong him, Garcia pulled a butcher knife out of his backpack and attacked Vanessa. The assault caused Vanessa to lose …show more content…

In a retributive justice system, the state is tasked with bringing Blanco-Garcia to justice. The state will accuse Blanco-Garcia of murdering Vanessa Pham and hold an adversarial trial to determine whether he is guilty of the crime or not. An appointed defense attorney (DA) will represent Blanco-Garcia at trial. Due process demands that the defendant is afforded legal representation to argue matters of law on his behalf as well as to protect the defendant’s other due process rights. Likewise, the state will also be represented by a legal agent, the commonwealth attorney (CA). The two attorneys will present their case before a judge. During the trial the CA will introduce Blanco-Garcia’s confession in which he admits killing Vanessa Pham as she drove him to the hospital. The DA will offer a counter argument that his client attacked Pham because he believed that she posed a danger to him. Furthermore, that the PCP his client took earlier that day decreased his mental capability. The CA will reason that the amount of times the defendant stabbed the victim indicates an intent to kill. After listening to both sides present their case the judge will issue a ruling on the defendant’s

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