CORPUS
CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- Prosecutors
say they won't seek the death penalty for a police office indicted on a capital
murder charge in the death of his estranged common-law wife.
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times
reported that prosecutor Jenny Dorsey's announced her intentions at a status
hearing Tuesday in Corpus Christi in the case against Jose Gonzales III.
A Nueces County grand jury also
accused the former Alice police officer of burglary in Leslie Morin's shooting
Dec. 12 at a house in Corpus Christi.
According to court documents, he
broke into a closet where Morin and her mother were hiding, grabbed Morin and
shot her but left her mother uninjured.
Authorities said Morin left Gonzales
with their son two weeks before her death.
If convicted, Gonzales would get
life without parole.