Posted on 01/31/2026 9:28:19 AM PST by Eleutheria5
The illegal alien convicted of killing nursing student Laken Riley is seeking a new trial — evoking an uncomfortable flashback to the brutal homicide that helped drive the illegal immigration debate and led to a federal law named after his victim.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan, is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was set to appear Friday in Athens-Clarke County Superior Court in Georgia, where post-conviction attorneys will present arguments requesting a new trial.
Judge Patrick Haggard, who handled the original case and sentenced Ibarra, will hear the motion. Such a motion is typically the start of a process of appeals made by appellate lawyers before petitioning higher courts.
Ibarra, 26, was found guilty on all 10 counts in November 2024 for the February killing that year of Riley, 22, who was attacked during a morning run on the University of Georgia campus.
Prosecutors argued in his homicide trial that Riley died during a violent struggle with Ibarra. A medical examiner testified that her killer had smashed the nursing student’s head with a rock as well as inflicted multiple injuries across her head, neck, torso, and limbs as she desperately tried fight him off.
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I hate the lawyers worse than the perp.
Shakespeare was right.
Americans needs to stop trying to “deport” these foreign murderers. Lynch the murderers before the local yokel fuzz bois can release them back onto the streets to continue their killing.
He’s lucky we didn’t fry him the first time around.
Murderers should be killed.
True that, always it’s about the money.
the more this is in the news, the better it is for ICE and mass deportations...
It really irks me that this POS is sitting in an American prison getting FREE three meals a day, FREE dental, FREE education, FREE medical.
It’s too bad we don’t have one of Salem’s old dunking chairs to decide if these bass turd foreigners are guilty or not. We could tie a tow sack full of rocks to their legs and toss them off a bridge. If they don’t float...
How long did Jan 6 victims wait, or are still waiting, for their first trial? And this illegal could get another after already being tried and convicted?
“Americans needs to stop trying to “deport” these foreign murderers. Lynch the murderers before the local yokel fuzz bois can release them back onto the streets to continue their killing.”
Best to execute convicted murderers to ensure they don’t murder anyone else.
Why does this brutal thug deserve a new trial?
Phooey!
Who’s paying for the lawyers?
If I were Laken's relatives, I'd contact a "lifer" in the prison to take care of business.
He’s a candidate for an oopsie out the back end of a military transport at 10,000 ft over the Gulf of America.
He’s angling for it. The Judge might tell him, “f@#$ no, you little weasel,” and bang his gavel.
Options for retrial:
Hang him from the tree that owns itself, and let it determine guilt.
Stand him in front of the double barrel cannon and see if modern technology can make it work properly.
Just go ahead and deport and release him home - from 10,000 feet out of the back of a C-130.
We need to outsource prison for illegal immigrants. El Salvador would be a good place for this creep.
A hemp rope has always been the best deterrent to repetitive murder.
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