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the death penalty. The 13-year old

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s decomposed body was found Aug. 10, 1996,

in a cold storage vault at a cemetery. Authorities said Henry, Corey Maeweather

and Stanley Obas dumped it there after torturing and killing the girl.

Maeweather said Henry and Obas used a turkey baster,

corkscrew

and electrical

cords to torture the girl.

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Lunging with a Corkscrew

The Salinas Californian

, July 1, 2004 - Civil rights groups Wednesday urged

prosecutors to file criminal charges against a rookie Salinas police officer who

fatally shot a man in May. Robert Carrillo, 40, died when Officer Adam Shaffer

shot him May 16 as Carrillo stabbed

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Klief,

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a police dog sent into a house to

apprehend him, police said.

The Police Department has said Shaffer opened fire because he feared that

Carrillo was about to stab Klief

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s handler. Civil rights groups say police knew

Carrillo was mentally ill and could have prevented the confrontation that ended

in his death.

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This is not a justifiable homicide ... because it was preventable,

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said William

W. Monning, president of the National Lawyers Guild, Monterey County

chapter. Monning was one of several people who spoke Wednesday to members

of the media in the courtyard of the county courthouse, 240 Church St., Salinas.

The groups called for the district attorney

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s office to file excessive-force charges

against Shaffer.

Berkley Brannon, an assistant district attorney, said that he

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d received the Police

Department

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s investigative report into the case but that he doesn

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t know how

long it will take to review it. Monning and Mel Mason, chairman of the Civil

Rights Coalition of Monterey County, said police didn

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t follow guidelines

established by the county Board of Supervisors after the 1998 Seaside police

killing of Charles Vaughn Sr.

Vaughn, a schizophrenic, was shot by officers after he lunged at them with a

corkscrew

.

The guidelines include requiring that a county mental health expert is brought to

the scene of an altercation between police and someone who is mentally ill.

Mason said police knew of Carrillo

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s mental illness but didn

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t bring a mental

health expert to the scene. Police were trying to arrest Carrillo because he was in

a home where a restraining order had been placed on him.