SANTA CRUZ — After a months-long trial to decide if 25-year-old convicted rapist and murderer Adrian “A.J.” Gonzalez should be released from the juvenile justice system or remain ...

A Santa Cruz jury has decided that a convicted child murderer and rapist will not be released from custody a little under a decade from when he killed his 8-year-old neighbor. The jury of four ...

The jury of four women, eight men and two alternative jurors (both men), will decide if Adrian Gonzalez will be released 10 years after he killed his 8-year-old neighbor Maddy Middleton at the ...

The trial for the release of Adrian Gonzalez, convicted of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Maddy Middleton, continued today in Santa Cruz. No cameras were allowed in the courtroom, but it was ...

when the jury’s verdict was read. Jurors decided that the convicted killer, 25-year-old Adrian “AJ” Gonzalez, is still too dangerous to be released from custody. One man, who said he is ...

(Aric Sleeper – Santa Cruz Sentinel) SANTA CRUZ — After a months-long trial to decide if 25-year-old convicted rapist and murderer Adrian “A.J.” Gonzalez should be released from the ...

Opening statements begin today in the release trial for Adrian Gonzalez, who was convicted in 2015 for raping and killing 8-year-old Maddy Middleton. Gonzalez, who was 15 at the time of the crime ...

A jury has decided that Adrian Gonzalez, who killed 8-year-old Maddy Middleton ten years ago, will remain in juvenile custody for at least two more years. "We are very pleased and very happy that ...