OXNARD : Defendant’s Violent Past Told to Jury

Attempting to send a second Oxnard man to Death Row for the 1992 slaying of a mother of four, a prosecutor on Monday told a jury that the defendant has a history of violence that includes convictions for rape and robbery.

Frederick Lee Jackson looked away from Deputy Dist. Atty. Donald C. Glynn as prosecutors told the Superior Court jury that the 26-year-old defendant deserves a death sentence for the murder of 30-year-old Genoveva Gonzales.

Even though a Jackson co-defendant fired the bullet that killed the victim, the jury last month convicted Jackson of first-degree murder and a special circumstance that makes him eligible for a death sentence.

The co-defendant, 25-year-old Christopher Sattiewhite of Oxnard, was convicted of murder in a separate trial and is on Death Row.

In his opening statement, Jackson lawyer Charles L. Cassy told jurors that Jackson does not deserve to die because he was not the triggerman.

Gonzales was shot in the head in a ditch along Arnold Road after being raped by Jackson, according to court testimony.

In a five-minute statement, Cassy called the trial an unusual case because “an individual is charged with the death penalty when (he) did not kill anyone.”

But Glynn said Jackson contributed to Gonzales’ murder when he kidnaped and raped the woman before she was shot.

The prosecutor also said that Jackson had a record of violence dating back to his teen-age years. And four months before Gonzales was murdered, Jackson, Sattiewhite and another man raped and robbed an 18-year-old woman on a beach in Oxnard, Glynn said.