BREAKING NEWS: Joe Lopez gets 32½ years in three separate sentences By LAURA B. MARTINEZ The Brownsville Herald
After more than a day of deliberations, a state district jury handed Tejano artist Joe Lopez 32½ years in three separate sentences.
The jury, which began deliberating Monday afternoon, resumed deliberations in the morning, broke for lunch and picked up again at 1:30 p.m. before reaching a verdict at 2:30 p.m.
The sentences were for 20, 8½ and 4 years.
Lopez, 56, was found guilty Oct. 20 on two counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of indecency with a child. He was accused of raping a teenage relative in April 2004 at his Rancho Viejo home.
