[Lady Sidhe]

Posted on Mon, Jun. 14, 2004

Convicted killer faces new charges of murder, battering detainee

Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An inmate serving a 40-year sentence for a 1989 murder faces new charges of second degree murder and battery of a detainee, and has been transferred to a new prison, the Department of Corrections said.

Edwin Rivera, 37, of Sarasota, also faces a charge of felony battery causing great bodily harm. Department spokesman Sterling Ivey said he could not provide details about the new charges.

Rivera was arrested in October 1989 in Lee County, and pleaded no contest to murder, robbery with a deadly weapon, shooting missiles into a dwelling or vehicle, grand theft of a motor vehicle and attempted armed robbery.

On April 6, he was transferred from the Martin Correctional Institution in Indiantown to Florida State Prison in Starke, Ivey said.

Rivera was arrested on battery charges in April, but those were amended last month to include the murder charge.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates attacks that occur at state prisons, and forwards any charges to the state attorney's office, Ivey said.



So what does it take? Raping and murdering a convent full of nuns?? He can't even contain the violence after it got him in prison, what makes anyone think that prison's going to IMPROVE his behavior? Some people just never learn.


Sidhe