Man accused of strangling his wife to death released from jail again

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A murder suspect who was ordered back into custody by the New Mexico Supreme Court is out of jail again. Jerome Gutierrez is accused of killing his wife, Kristy Rivera, in a domestic violence incident at the couple's home back in May.

A judge put Gutierrez on pretrial release earlier this year but without a pretrial detention hearing. Last Thursday, the New Mexico Supreme Court ordered him back into custody and demanded a pretrial detention hearing.

A spokesperson for the District Attorney's Office shared this statement:

"Gutierrez admitted to pushing Rivera's head into a wall, squeezing her neck and abusing her repeatedly in the days before her death."
"He did beat her so badly that she died. If he's willing to do that in front of his own child, I don't know how the court could fashion conditions of release that would reasonably, number one, protect his own child,”

Monday afternoon, in a 14-page order,
Judge Cindy Leos decided the state had not provided enough evidence that Gutierrez is a threat to public safety and placed him on pretrial release once again.

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