However, in the summer of 2019, Martinez withdrew his guilty pleas. He was sentenced to 18 years to life, to be served in the mental hospital rather than prison. He also has visual hallucinations, attorneys wrote.Įventually, after spending nearly two years in a state mental hospital, Martinez pleaded guilty in December 2018 to the murder and molestation charges. His defense attorneys disagreed, saying in court documents that Martinez had schizophrenia as well as an intellectual disability and “abysmal” memory, all of which left him unable to remember his birth date or address or to accomplish basic tasks like putting on shoes or brushing his teeth. The murder and molestation cases were delayed by years of mental competency issues, which prosecutors accused Martinez of faking. Martinez won’t be transferred from Riverside County jail to state prison until two other cases against him are resolved: He is charged with molesting the 4-year-old grandson of one of his friends a few days after Corona’s death, and with having a razor blade attached to a toothbrush handle under his mattress when his jail cell was searched in 2013. Authorities say Martinez strangled Corona with a sock and shoelace and bludgeoned him in the head with a rock, then jammed a branch in his mouth and tried to light his body on fire. ![]() ![]() Jorge Alejandro Martinez, 52, who had lived in Homeland, was convicted in October 2019 of murder in the death of 47-year-old Sergio Corona of Perris. Nearly two years after he was convicted at trial, a man incarcerated for time at a state mental hospital was sentenced Thursday, June 24, to 26 years to life in prison for killing one of his drinking buddies in 2011 and hiding the half-naked body in some landscaping in downtown Perris.
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