Morgan Hill

If you're a healthy and able-bodied, get to church.

You're having a great example with the millers being set before you're driving all the way from Morgan Hill, Gilroy, waiting for a lung transplant.

And yet Sunday school, Sunday morning, Sunday night, they come to the house of God.

Hey, if they can get to God's house, able-bodied people ought to get to God's house.

Campbell I lived in for a while.

I lived in Morgan Hill.

Most of the time I spent at Eastside San Jose.

Shout out Seven Trees.

Delaney, thank you.

The man accused of kidnapping and killing Morgan Hill teenager Sierra Lamar was back in court today for his second murder trial.

The conviction of Antolin Garcia Torres was overturned in February after a court ruled the charges related to other kidnapping attempts should not have been included in the first trial.

ABC 7 Eyewitness News South Bay reporter Dustin Dorsey was in the courtroom for opening statements.

There are more than 200 witnesses associated with this case in some time in some way, and experts say that it will last well into the new year.

Those lengthy statements today will set the stage for what will be a legal battle between both sides.

Nearly a decade after a jury found Antolin Garcia Torres guilty of the murder and kidnapping of Sierra Lamar, the Morgan Hill man is getting a second chance at proving his innocence.

Legal analyst Stephen Clark says only Lamar's disappearance will be analyzed to see if Garcia Torres is found guilty once again.

The Solano County District Attorney's Office will now determine whether he'll face a double murder charge and the deaths of the woman and her unborn baby.

The second trial for the man accused of kidnapping and killing Morgan Hill and Morgan Hill teen Sierra Lamar in 2012 is now underway.

The conviction of Antolin Garcia Torres was overturned in February after a court ruled that charges related to other kidnapping attempts should not have been included in the first trial.

Investigators say DNA matching Garcia Torres and fibers from his car's carpeting were found in Lamar's clothing.

The Solano County District Attorney's Office will now determine whether he'll face a double murder charge in the deaths of the woman and her unborn baby.

The second trial for the man accused of kidnapping and killing Morgan Hill teen Sierra Lamar in 2012 is now underway.

The conviction of Antolin Garcia Torres was overturned in February after a court ruled charges related to other kidnapping attempts should not have been included in the first trial.

Investigators say DNA matching Garcia Torres and fibers from his car's carpeting, they were found on Lamar's clothing.

Yeah, I graduated from San Diego State.

I grew up in a little town outside of San Jose called Morgan Hill.

And then after I graduated from San Diego State, lived in Huntington Beach for about 12 years.

And then we got stuck in Washington, I say, for about eight and just couldn't get acclimated.

And Nina, what about you? Where'd you grow up?

Same, similar story actually.

AJ and I are from the same small town, Morgan Hill, California.

We, our families knew each other very well.

He is accused of kidnapping and murdering 15-year-old Sierra Lamar.

who disappeared back in March of 2012 while heading to her school bus stop in Morgan Hill, California.

Her body has never been recovered.

Now, Garcia Torres was convicted back in 2017, but earlier this year, an appellate court overturned that conviction after finding that the original trial improperly combined the Lamar case with allegations involving unrelated kidnappings.

Yeah.

So from our club, it's now spawned into more clubs, which is the goal, right? So we had guys who lived in San Jose, which is like 20 minutes away, or in Morgan Hill, which is like 20 minutes away.

And so they started their own ones locally in the Bay Area.

And so we have these workouts.