Osiris Quintero Munoz appeared in court Tuesday afternoon on
charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon in connection
with the fatal downtown stabbing at Rio Nilo March 16, but the
judge delayed the hearing two more weeks as the defense awaits more
information from the coroner.
Osiris Quintero Munoz appeared in court Tuesday afternoon on charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the fatal downtown stabbing at Rio Nilo March 16, but the judge delayed the hearing two more weeks as the defense awaits more information from the coroner.
Munoz, 26, is expected to enter a plea July 29 at 1:30 p.m. at the San Martin Superior Courthouse. Deputy Public Defender Jose Franco appeared in lieu of Munoz’s regular attorney, Enrique Colin, and asked the judge for further postponements pending the coroner’s report. The different deputy district attorneys who have handled the case have agreed to Colin’s – and now Franco’s – requests throughout the trial.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney also charged Munoz with violating the conditions of his probation. Munoz was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon by the same court in September 2006.
Gilroy police arrested Munoz the evening of March 25 in Gilroy on this last charge. The arrest was a result of a tip that led undercover GPD officers to a migrant camp near Anderson Reservoir in unincorporated Morgan Hill, where Munoz’s former employer lives.
That’s where police located the convertible that matched witnesses descriptions from the crime scene. Using DMV records, police matched the car to Munoz and then arrested him at his crowded Gilroy apartment for illegally possessing a single .380 round. They also recovered clothing and a towel that “appeared to have blood stains” and a 4-inch knife, according to court files and a statement of facts compiled by GPD Detective Stanley Devlin.
In the affidavit, Munoz told police that security guards removed him and a friend from Rio Nilo, 7474 Monterey St., because his friend was fighting with the two victims – Juan DeDios Arvizu Cabrera, 26, of Castroville, who eventually died outside the bar from multiple stab wounds, and Adan Arvizu Cabrera, 23, of Salinas, who suffered non-life threatening knife wounds, police said – but Munoz told police he never stabbed anyone as he sat in his car outside the bar while his friends got into the fight.
