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Brownsville Herald
Jared Taylor The Monitor
EDINBURG — Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra said he wants a fresh set of eyes to take another look at the Irene Garza cold murder case.
And he said he already has a man in mind to do the job.
Who’s that? Ricardo Rodriguez, the former state district judge who soundly defeated him in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary.
Guerra said he would send a letter to Rodriguez today asking him to assume the role of special prosecutor assigned to examine the evidence against John Feit, the former McAllen priest never charged with but widely suspected of killing the 25-year-old beauty queen in 1960.
“He got a mandate from the people, according to the turnout,” Guerra said, referring to Rodriguez garnering nearly 64 percent of the electorate, adding that it was “not just a little victory.”
“It’s a mandate. It’s a landslide. So if that’s what the people want — if that’s what he wants and that’s what (Garza’s family) wants, he should get it.”
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