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Author: Esquire
May 6, 2016 at 22:20
Eddie Herrera, 20, who attended Aldine's MacArthur High School, was convicted of assault for choking 17-year-old Jacqueline Gomez during sex in a hotel room after prom on May 16, 2014. She was found dead the next morning in the hotel bed.
A Houston man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for his role in the death of his prom date in 2014. Eddie Herrera, 20, who attended Aldine's MacArthur High School, was convicted of assault for choking 17-year-old Jacqueline Gomez during sex in a hotel room after prom on May 16, 2014. She was found dead the next morning in the hotel bed. Prosecutors had recommended a sentence f-rom 40 years to life, while his attorney asked jurors to consider probation. "Eddie Herrera had absolutely no motive and no reason. He did not choke her to death," defense attorney Doug O'Brien said during closings. "He could have just as easily died in that hotel room." Herrera, then 18, told police he and his ...
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