Dancing on Her Grave by Diana Montane

Author:Diana Montane [Montane, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-03-18T07:00:00+00:00

The year 2012 was a good one for me professionally. As a news reporter, I knew that if I wanted to continue growing in my career, I needed to relocate.

It had already happened before when I moved from Florida to Texas and then Nevada. My next move had to be Los Angeles, California.

For the Spanish TV market, Los Angeles is numero uno. I was very happy anchoring the late news in Vegas, but when the opportunity came along to be part of a new national network in California, I had to jump at it.

During this time, Debora’s murder trial was still being postponed. The family, Diana, and I were impatiently waiting for it.

Every time Jason Griffith had a calendar call known as a “status hearing” about the trial, our hopes were to have a final date. It ended up happening two years after I moved to Los Angeles.

Fortunately for us, our local affiliate station covered the trial, and I kept in touch with my reporter colleagues, who were always so open to sharing the inside information with us. The day the trial started, I received a lot of phone calls from people aware of my continuing interest in the case.

By 2013, we were still waiting for a trial, but the news of Debbie’s death had faded away. Nobody was covering the case anymore. Sadly, it had become another murder statistic in Sin City. The news reporters didn’t even cover every time Jason had a calendar call for his trial. After all, it was only more of the “same old same old.” Even the postponements were old news; the Las Vegas World News ran the headline: “Court records now indicate that the trial has been postponed. It is the SIXTH postponement.”

On six instances, a trial date had been set for Jason “Blu” Griffith, charged with murder in the death of his former girlfriend, Debora Flores-Narvaez.

There were many factors that contributed to the multiple postponements. Mind you, it caused a lot of distress for the family, having to hear the word “postponed” over and over again. To the justice system, it was merely a case number; to the Flores-Narvaez family, it was their daughter, their sister, their dear Debbie.

The first delay came because the case had been assigned to district judge Donald Mosley, who retired in early 2012. The case was reassigned to district judge Kathleen Delaney.

Various other delays were due to problems obtaining documents. A lot of the documents the public defenders presented as evidence during the trial came from Maryland, where Debbie lived prior to her move to Las Vegas. The defense attorney later said that what made it more difficult to get them was the power of a subpoena, which only works within the state. The defense wanted to have with them the previous restraining orders some of her ex-boyfriends had imposed on Debora, including a 2005 police report from one of Debbie’s ex-boyfriends, who was actually a police officer himself in Maryland. The delay in obtaining the documents caused the trial to be postponed more than once.

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