Attorneys make closing arguments in Baja beach homicide trial

In closing arguments at a Baja California courthouse, prosecutors described the April 2024 killings of Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and American Carter Rhoad as a premeditated robbery turned execution, alleging the defendants targeted the campers after a tip about their truck tires and phones.

The three defendants, Jesús Gerardo, Irineo Francisco and Ángel Jesús, face charges carrying well over a century in potential prison time. Prosecutors tied one defendant to a 9mm handgun matching the only bullet recovered from a body, while acknowledging two .45-caliber casings at the scene came from a weapon never identified.

Defense attorneys seized on that gap, arguing no ballistic, biological or genetic evidence connects their clients to the killings, and pointing to an uncordoned crime scene and contradictory statements from state agents. Family members of the victims asked the judge for maximum sentences; a verdict is expected Friday.

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