SAN MARCOS, Texas –
A Kyle man was sentenced to 40 years in jail on Monday for his convictions on two expenses of home violence and a cost of violating an emergency protecting order a number of occasions, all towards the identical sufferer.
Javier Esteban Rivera, 32, was discovered responsible by a Hays County jury on two counts of assault household violence – repeat offender and one depend of violation of a protecting order – two or extra occasions in 12 months. After the jury’s verdict was learn, the defendant entered right into a plea discount with the prosecution. He agreed to waive his proper to attraction and settle for a 40-year sentence relatively than permit the jury to set his punishment for the convictions.
Choose Joe Pool of the 428th District Court docket accepted the plea discount and pronounced Rivera’s four-decade punishment.
The jury was proven surveillance footage depicting an assault in a parking zone by which Rivera is seen punching the sufferer within the face and dragging her by her hair. Additionally they heard jail recordings by which Rivera admitted to committing the assault. A 911 name made by the sufferer’s mom throughout a second assault was additionally performed, by which jurors may hear the sufferer screaming within the background throughout what she testified was Rivera choking her, punching her and kicking her.
Initially of the trial, Rivera stipulated to the truth that he had been convicted of assault household violence up to now. As a part of the plea discount, he additionally pleaded true to allegations that he had been beforehand despatched to jail on a minimum of two separate events.
Hays County Assistant District Attorneys Jon English and Cassidy Story prosecuted the case.
“It was far previous time that Javier Rivera spent a severe variety of years in jail,” English stated. “He’s a harmful, violent predator who did horrible issues to his victims. Due to the braveness of these victims in coming ahead, right this moment, he’s locked up the place he can’t harm anybody else. Justice was served on this case.”
“The defendant spent his life making an attempt to regulate others, however he couldn’t management the jury that lastly held him accountable,” Story added.
Quite a few members of the Kyle Police Division investigated the instances, together with Detective Daniel Rainwater, Officer Joshua Cantu, and Sergeant Tera Mayfield, every of whom testified for the prosecution at trial.
The trial group for the district lawyer’s workplace additionally included Hays County Assistant District Attorneys Claudia Garcia and Abigail Whitaker, Sufferer Assistant Coordinators Annalise Brewer-Corridor and Sandra Groters, Authorized Assistants Avery Slocum and Mercedes Pena and Hays County District Legal professional Investigator Sergeant Rheanne Garcia.