Posted on 11/20/2025 12:59:02 PM PST by DFG
The state will not seek the death penalty against the man charged with beheading his co-worker at a Dallas motel.
No Death Penalty
What's new: Yordanis Cabos-Martinez made his first court appearance at the Frank Crowley Courthouse on Thursday morning.
The Cuban native allegedly got into an argument with his co-worker, Chandra "Bob" Nagamalliah, on Sept. 10. Police said Cabos-Martinez then beheaded Nagamallaiah as Nagamallaiah’s family looked on in horror.
His hands were shackled at his waist, and he wore a tan jail jumpsuit as deputies brought him into Judge Lela May’s courtroom.
Defense attorney Lalon "Clipper" Peale told the judge it could take some time for this case to develop due to possible mitigating factors.
"Obviously, he’s not from the United States. Mitigation is going to need to be done. That mitigation will entail having to make trips either by council or mitigation experts to Cuba and some other destinations as well. So there’s going to be some extensive mitigation that needs to be done in this case," Peale said.
Prosecutor Julie Johnson told the court the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office does not intend to try this as a death penalty case.
"Based on our investigation and my conversations, the state of Texas is not seeking the death penalty. But we reserve the right to change our mind should anything come up," Johnson said.
The defense wants it in writing from the DA’s office that it will not seek the death penalty and does not want to give prosecutors the "right to change their minds."
Johnson told the judge she would have a final answer about the death penalty by Jan. 8.
There is also a December date for both sides to check in with the judge.
The trial date has not yet been set.
Dallas Motel Beheading
The backstory: The gruesome crime happened on the morning of Sept. 10 at the Downtown Suites motel, located just off Interstate 30 near the Tenison Golf Course.
An arrest affidavit revealed 37-year-old Cobos-Martinez was cleaning a room in the motel with a co-worker when their boss approached. Nagamallaiah told his employees not to use a washing machine that was broken.
Cobos-Martinez allegedly got mad that Nagamallaiah was speaking to his co-worker to translate communication rather than speaking directly to him.
He allegedly left the room to get a machete and then started hacking at Nagamallaiah.
Nagamallaiah ran down the parking lot towards the front office, screaming as Cobos-Martinez chased him, according to the affidavit.
During the attack, the victim's wife and son walked out of the front office and tried to help him. They were pushed away.
During the attack, police said Cobos-Martinez went through the victim's pockets, taking his cell phone and lanyard with a key card. He then cut the victim until his head was removed from his body.
According to the affidavit, the suspect then kicked Nagamallaiah's head twice into the parking lot and then picked it up, and carried it to the dumpster, where he left it.
As he was leaving the dumpster area, covered in blood and still carrying the machete, Dallas Fire-Rescue followed him down the road until officers could help. He was then taken into custody.
Cobos-Martinez remains in the Dallas County jail charged with capital murder.
Immigration Hold
Dig deeper: Cobos-Martinez is on an immigration hold, as he is a Cuban national.
He does have a violent criminal history with a conviction in California, and arrests in Florida, and Houston.
Earlier this year, ICE confirmed to Fox News that Cobos-Martinez was released from ICE custody on January 13, despite his removal order, due to quote "no significant likelihood for removal in the foreseeable future".
Public records show at the time of the murder, Cobos-Martinez had an active warrant for a probation violation out of California.
Back in 2017, Cobos-Martinez carjacked a woman in south Lake Tahoe while he was naked. A jury convicted him in 2023 and sentenced him to a year and a half in prison.
Send him to the Ukraine front lines.
[Back in 2017, Cobos-Martinez carjacked a woman
in south Lake Tahoe while he was naked]
Well, of course
Was that wrong?
Should he have not done that?
Dallas is a cancerous pock mark on our otherwise conservative state. It elects the most despicable leftists imaginable.
The proper punishment in this case is kinda obvious.
Beheading.
Don't forget Austin.
What’s next?
It was a “mostly peaceful” beheading?
Outrageous!
Well, you could do a two-body-length drop by hanging and just rip his head off.
So charge him federally for violating the victims civil rights, if the democrats can domit to cops when they don’t like a jury outcome, why can’t we?
Check his Bank Accounts.
He looks like a S0r0$ love interest.
This is bullcrap. It should not take even longer because the criminal is not a us citizen. Didn’t in the past.
Another fine reason for not allowing questionable people into the country.
It’s okay to behead someone so long as it’s because you’re having an argument.
Personally I’d sleep better if the death penalty was on the table because the death penalty needs to be on the table.
Next you want me to ask if the guy that got beheaded is ok so we can knock the charge down to a misdemeanor?
I am satisfied that I made another personal decision and that was to carry a gun every day I go out in public to protect myself from maniacs like this.
A “mostly peaceful beheading”.
Durka, durka, durka.
WTF!
Maybe the victim's head was one of those "semi-attachables", and this is just a prank gone bad...
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And Houston.
And San Antonio.
It’s not the state, > Dallas < is FULL of west coast neo-communists.
Things were normal before the westies flooded in (after communizing CA. until it is as nutty as squirrel crap.) then here they come and it tripled the cost of housing.
BEFORE THEM there were the dimwit yankees with the insane habit of telling everyone how they did it “up north.”
It’s unfathomable as to WHY the neo-communists constantly come here and proudly relate how smart they are for getting out of (insert blue city/state here) the place THEY destroyed because they are too stupid to NOT listen to the BS from those politicians that usually lead the way to such destruction.
And so they run to the safety of a red city/state and immediately continue to vote for the very things they just got done escaping from.
MORONS.
NO CURE.
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