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MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO AGGRAVATED MURDER AND IS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON!

MARION, OH – STATEMENT FROM MARION COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY RAY GROGAN

“One year ago last week, Christian Gutierrez gunned down Charles Feliciano in a church parking lot. It was intentional and cold-blooded. Until now, Gutierrez denied it. I was ready to ask a jury to send him to death row for his calculated act of criminal cruelty. But today, Gutierrez admitted what Marion police and my prosecution team have been saying all along – he’s guilty of aggravated murder.

While Gutierrez deserves the death penalty, a jury’s decision to order it would’ve been the beginning of decades of slow appeals. And while taxpayers would’ve paid for those expensive appeals, Christian Gutierrez would’ve been able to continue his phony denials.

That’s why I recommended a sentence of 28 years to life in prison. When defense counsel agreed, the judge ordered that sentence. Now, for Christian Gutierrez, there will be no appeals, no more denying the obvious, and no more escaping responsibility.

I’ve met regularly with the family of Charles Feliciano. These are good, caring people. They continue t


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