GUILTY CA - Christina Williams, 13, Seaside, 12 June 1998 *arrest*

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Wednesday, March 27th:
*Pretrial Hearing – (@ 2:30pm PT) - CA – Christina Marie Williams (13) (June 12, 1998, Seaside; found 7 months later) – *Charles Holifield (56/37 @ time of crime) arrested (4/17/17), charged (5/10/17), arraigned (1/16/18) & indicted (2/23/18) with 1st degree murder, special allegations of kidnapping & lewd acts on children. Plead not guilty. DA seeks DP.
DNA match. Trial starts 10/7/19.
Also suspect in Jennifer Morris murder. Holifield is serving a third-strike sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the attempted kidnapping of a 23-year-old woman. Also was convicted of sexually assaulting or raping two teenage girls, and he was suspected of raping a third, between 1979 and 1983. All the attacks took place on Fort Ord.
3/6/19 Update: Motions hearing, next hearing 3/27 @ 2:30pm, Calendar Call hearing 10/2 @ 1:30pm, trial set for 10/7/19 @ 8:30am
 
Niner said:
@cybervampira - maybe they have the next court hearing on the site? :)
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Public Portal - Superior Court of Monterey, County of Monterey

THIS IS A PRINTABLE PAGE ONLY. THE LINKS AND DOCUMENTS WILL NOT WORK.
SS170597A
People of the State of California vs. Holifield, Charles Allen
CASE INFORMATION

Case Type: Felony
Case Number: SS170597A
Filing Date: 4/14/2017
Case Status: Active

Parties
Type First Name Middle Name Last Name
Defendant Charles Allen Holifield
Plaintiff People of the State of California
Attorneys
Bold Shows Lead Attorney
Representing First Name Middle Name Last Name
Charles Allen Holifield Susan Chapman
EVENTS
File Date File Type Filed By
4/14/2017 Declaration of Officer Filed
4/14/2017 Arrest Warrant Issued - Criminal
4/14/2017 Minute Order: Out of Court Entry
4/14/2017 Arrest Warrant Issued - Criminal
4/14/2017 Complaint Filed
4/14/2017 Order: Transport
4/14/2017 Warrant: Ordered Charles Holifield
4/14/2017 Warrant: Issued Charles Holifield
4/17/2017 Request for Calendar setting
4/17/2017 In Custody - Jail
4/20/2017 Minute Order: Out of Court Entry
5/2/2017 Request: Media Coverage
5/2/2017 Order: Media Coverage
5/8/2017 Request: Media Coverage
5/9/2017 Warrant Recall Document
5/9/2017 Request: Media Coverage
5/9/2017 Fingerprint Card
5/9/2017 Request: Media Coverage
5/9/2017 Order: Media Coverage
5/9/2017 Minute Order
5/9/2017 Time Waiver: 10/60-Day PX Waiver
5/9/2017 Order: Media Coverage
5/9/2017 Order: Media Coverage
5/9/2017 Order: Media Coverage
5/9/2017 Order: Media Coverage
5/9/2017 Request: Media Coverage
5/11/2017 Warrant: Returned and Filed
6/6/2017 Request: Media Coverage
6/9/2017 Order: Media Coverage
6/28/2017 Minute Order
9/13/2017 Minute Order
10/11/2017 Minute Order
1/10/2018 Minute Order
1/16/2018 Held to Answer
1/16/2018 Not Guilty Plea Entered
1/16/2018 Complaint: Amended
1/16/2018 Order: Media Coverage
1/16/2018 Request: Media Coverage
1/16/2018 Minute Order
1/26/2018 Transcript: Reporter-Original
2/22/2018 Request: Media Coverage
2/23/2018 Minute Order
2/23/2018 Arraigned on Information or Indictment
2/23/2018 Not Guilty Plea Entered
2/27/2018 Order: Media Coverage
3/23/2018 Motion Charles Holifield
3/23/2018 Motion: Set Aside (PC995)
4/18/2018 Minute Order
5/2/2018 Opposition/Objections
5/11/2018 Minute Order
5/11/2018 In Custody - Jail
6/20/2018 Minute Order
7/25/2018 Capital Case
7/25/2018 Minute Order
7/26/2018 Motion
7/26/2018 Declaration
8/22/2018 Minute Order
10/10/2018 Minute Order
12/5/2018 Minute Order
1/30/2019 Minute Order
3/4/2019 Motion Charles Holifield
3/6/2019 Minute Order
3/20/2019 Motion Charles Holifield
3/20/2019 Motion Charles Holifield
3/27/2019 Minute Order
HEARINGS
Dept. Date Time Hearing Type Result Reminder
Department 3 6/28/2017 8:30AM Preliminary Examination Setting Held
Department 3 9/13/2017 8:30AM Hearing: Setting Held
Department 3 10/11/2017 8:30AM Preliminary Examination Setting Held
Department 3 1/10/2018 10:00AM Preliminary Examination Setting Held
Department 3 1/16/2018 9:00AM Preliminary Calendar Call Vacated
Department 3 1/16/2018 9:00AM Preliminary Examination Held
Department 3 1/18/2018 9:00AM Preliminary Examination Vacated
Department 3 2/23/2018 8:30AM Arraignment: Information Held
Department 3 4/18/2018 8:30AM Conference: Pre-Trial Held
Department 1 4/27/2018 8:30AM Hearing: Ruling Vacated
Department 1 5/11/2018 8:30AM Hearing: Motion Held
Department 3 6/20/2018 8:30AM Conference: Pre-Trial Held
Department 3 7/25/2018 10:00AM Conference: Pre-Trial Held
Department 3 8/22/2018 8:30AM Conference: Trial Setting Held
Department 3 10/10/2018 8:30AM Conference: Pre-Trial Held
Department 3 12/5/2018 8:30AM Conference: Pre-Trial Held
Department 3 1/30/2019 8:30AM Conference: Status Held
Department 3 3/6/2019 1:30PM Hearing: Motion Held
Department 3 3/27/2019 2:30PM Hearing: Other Held
Department 3 4/24/2019 2:30PM Hearing: Ruling
Department 3 10/2/2019 1:30PM Jury Trial: Calendar Call
Department 3 10/7/2019 8:30AM Jury Trial
ARREST INFORMATION
Count Statute Report Num. Agency Arrest Date Booking Num. Booking Agency
No data available in table
CHARGES, DISPOSITIONS & PLEAS
COUNT RESULT DATE DETAILS
BAIL
Type Description Posted Date Set Date Amount
No data available in table
WARRANTS
Number Type Description Issued Date Issued By Amount
No data available in table
Name Pages Date View Download
No data available in table
RELATED CASES
Case Number Case Number Description Comments
No data available in table
 
Wednesday, April 24th:
*Ruling Hearing – (@ 2:30pm PT) - CA – Christina Marie Williams (13) (June 12, 1998, Seaside; found 7 months later) – *Charles Allen Holifield (56/37 @ time of crime) arrested (4/17/17), charged (5/10/17), arraigned (1/16/18) & indicted (2/23/18) with 1st degree murder, special allegations of kidnapping & lewd acts on children. Plead not guilty. DA seeks DP.
DNA match
Trial starts 10/7/19.
Also suspect in Jennifer Morris murder. Holifield is serving a third-strike sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the attempted kidnapping of a 23-year-old woman. Also was convicted of sexually assaulting or raping two teenage girls, and he was suspected of raping a third, between 1979 and 1983. All the attacks took place on Fort Ord.
3/6/19 Update: Motions hearing, next hearing 3/27, Calendar Call hearing 10/2, trial set for 10/7/19.
3/27/19 Update: Next Ruling hearing on 4/24.
 
Judge issues gag order in Charles Holifield murder case – Monterey Herald

SALINAS — Judge Pamela Butler agreed to a request by Charles Holifield’s defense attorneys Wednesday limiting participants in the trial of the suspect in the 1998 kidnapping and death of 13-year-old Christina Williams from speaking to the press.
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Holifield’s trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 7. He is currently serving a third-strike sentence of 25 years to life in prison for attempted kidnapping and making criminal threats against a woman in September 1998. His prior strike offenses included forcible rape, kidnapping, and assault with intent to commit rape.


Unfortunately, no next court date in the article....
 
@cybervampira - are you around yet?! Hope you are & are feeling a lot better!

So... if you are - can you see if there is a next court date on this case, please? TIA!
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Niner said:
@cybervampira - are you around yet?! Hope you are & are feeling a lot better!

So... if you are - can you see if there is a next court date on this case, please? TIA!
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SS170597A
People of the State of California vs. Holifield, Charles Allen
CASE INFORMATION
https://portal.monterey.courts.ca.gov/#full
 
Judge denies motions before Charles Holifield murder trial – Monterey Herald


SALINAS — Judge Pamela Butler denied a motion Thursday by Charles Holifield’s attorney to remove the possibility of the death penalty from the murder trial, which is set to begin in a little over a month, on the 1998 kidnapping and death of 13-year-old Christina Williams.

Deputy District Attorney Lindsey O’Shea said Butler denied the motion, which the defense filed on grounds the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment, as well as a separate motion arguing the state’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional. Butler denied another motion arguing that due to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s death penalty moratorium the jury wouldn’t be able to believe a death sentence would be able to be carried out if Holifield were to be found guilty and the death penalty was his sentence.
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Holifield will return to court Tuesday (9/3) when Butler is expected to make a decision on a motion to suppress a past statement by Holifield. A motion to change the venue of the trial could be brought up as well Tuesday.
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Holifield is currently serving a third-strike sentence of 25 years to life in prison for attempted kidnapping and making criminal threats against a woman in September 1998. Holifield also was convicted of sexually assaulting or raping two teenage girls, and he was suspected of raping a third, between 1979 and 1983. All the attacks took place on Fort Ord.
 
Tuesday, Sept. 3rd:
*Motions Hearing (@ am PT) - CA – Christina Marie Williams (13) (June 12, 1998, Seaside; found 7 months later) – *Charles Holifield (56/37 @ time of crime) arrested (4/17/17), charged (5/10/17), arraigned (1/16/18) & indicted (2/23/18) with 1st degree murder, special allegations of kidnapping & lewd acts on children. Plead not guilty. DA seeks DP.
DNA match
Trial starts 10/7/19.
Also suspect in Jennifer Morris murder. Holifield is serving a third-strike sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the attempted kidnapping of a 23-year-old woman. Also was convicted of sexually assaulting or raping two teenage girls, and he was suspected of raping a third, between 1979 and 1983. All the attacks took place on Fort Ord.
3/6/19 Update: Motions hearing, next hearing 3/27, Calendar Call hearing 10/2, trial set for 10/7/19. 3/27/19 Update: Next Ruling hearing on 4/24.
8/29/19 Update: Judge Pamela Butler denied a motion Thursday by Holifield’s attorney to remove the possibility of the death penalty from the murder trial, which the defense filed on grounds the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment, as well as a separate motion arguing the state’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional. Butler denied another motion arguing that due to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s death penalty moratorium the jury wouldn’t be able to believe a death sentence would be able to be carried out if Holifield were to be found guilty and the death penalty was his sentence. Returns to court Tuesday (9/3) when Butler is expected to make a decision on a motion to suppress a past statement by Holifield. A motion to change the venue of the trial could be brought up as well Tuesday.
 
Niner said:
Judge denies motions before Charles Holifield murder trial – Monterey Herald


SALINAS — Judge Pamela Butler denied a motion Thursday by Charles Holifield’s attorney to remove the possibility of the death penalty from the murder trial, which is set to begin in a little over a month, on the 1998 kidnapping and death of 13-year-old Christina Williams.

Deputy District Attorney Lindsey O’Shea said Butler denied the motion, which the defense filed on grounds the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment, as well as a separate motion arguing the state’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional. Butler denied another motion arguing that due to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s death penalty moratorium the jury wouldn’t be able to believe a death sentence would be able to be carried out if Holifield were to be found guilty and the death penalty was his sentence.
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Holifield will return to court Tuesday (9/3) when Butler is expected to make a decision on a motion to suppress a past statement by Holifield. A motion to change the venue of the trial could be brought up as well Tuesday.
[.....]
Holifield is currently serving a third-strike sentence of 25 years to life in prison for attempted kidnapping and making criminal threats against a woman in September 1998. Holifield also was convicted of sexually assaulting or raping two teenage girls, and he was suspected of raping a third, between 1979 and 1983. All the attacks took place on Fort Ord.
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Holifield didn't do it. Look at the Noelani Burleson case, November 23, 1998. The poster pictures in that case match the poster pictrures in the Christina Williams case. Christina and Noelani were the exact same type girls - both had Filipina mothers and Anglo fathers, both looked alike. I have the wanted posters in both cases. E-mail me and I will send them to you. Bob Oliver - [email protected] 831 383-2676
Brotherfudz said:
Seen you post on a few places for years, besides the eye witnesses accounts which can be notoriously inaccurate...any other reason why you feel this way? Wonder what prompted Holifields arrest, DNA?
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I have no idea if this response reaches you. I live in Monterey, work, grew-up here. Politics are not rational here, politics are ruthless here. 20 years worth of study cannot be explained on this site. Call me if you want to help or know more. Bob Oliver 831 383-2676
 
The Christina Williams case was high profile. When the remains were tested DNA findings were never made public. There either were DNA and it was not made public or there was no DNA. However, after 18 years, the government wants you to believe they couldn't locate it but now they did. What I think is that the original testing came up with the same DNA that the original suspects in the Christina Williams and Noelani Burleson cases have. One and the same. Holifields DNA was fabricated or planted and that could cost millions and no one is going to pay for the testing. Holifield didn't do it. Look at the pictures of both sets of suspects. They are the same guys.
 
markiemapes said:
I lived a few houses away from her when she disappeared. I will never forget getting a knock on my door from the police and asking me about Christina. I had actually seen her that day with a friend walking. I was a new mom and having this happen really shook me. I can't believe it is taking this long to give the Williams family justice.
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I would appreciate it if you contact me. I have the wanted poteres in both cases, Christina Williams, and five months later Noelani Burleson. Its the same guys and there has been a cover-up, no doubt. Bob Oliver 831 383-2676 [email protected]
WANTED 1998 Christina William's murder Suspect comparison pictures
 
Welcome to this thread Bob Oliver.

You are quite correct on the suspect comparison pictures. I just looked and there is no thread for Norelani Burleson....

I would "think" his defense will bring up these pictures in at least one of his hearings.
 
Charles Holifield murder trial moved to March 2020 – Monterey Herald

SALINAS — Citing issues with missing or mislabeled documents Tuesday, Judge Pamela Butler pushed back the murder trial of Charles Holifield on the 1998 kidnapping and death of 13-year-old Christina Williams from next month to March of next year.

According to Deputy District Attorney Lindsey O’Shea, an issue arose Aug. 20 when Holifield’s defense attorneys let the prosecution know in an email it was missing about 60,000 pages of documents.
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In addition to those documents, O’Shea said the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office received an email Tuesday morning from the FBI indicating they were going to send additional documents.
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Given the time it will take for the person tasked with organizing the documents as well as the time the defense will need to review them, the sides agreed to move the start of the trial to March 2, 2020. In part, because the DA’s Office announced it will pursue the death penalty, O’Shea said the prosecution wants to make sure to do its due diligence before the start of the trial.
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Holifield will return to court Oct. 17 for rulings on additional motions.
 
Niner said:
Charles Holifield murder trial moved to March 2020 – Monterey Herald

SALINAS — Citing issues with missing or mislabeled documents Tuesday, Judge Pamela Butler pushed back the murder trial of Charles Holifield on the 1998 kidnapping and death of 13-year-old Christina Williams from next month to March of next year.

According to Deputy District Attorney Lindsey O’Shea, an issue arose Aug. 20 when Holifield’s defense attorneys let the prosecution know in an email it was missing about 60,000 pages of documents.
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In addition to those documents, O’Shea said the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office received an email Tuesday morning from the FBI indicating they were going to send additional documents.
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Given the time it will take for the person tasked with organizing the documents as well as the time the defense will need to review them, the sides agreed to move the start of the trial to March 2, 2020. In part, because the DA’s Office announced it will pursue the death penalty, O’Shea said the prosecution wants to make sure to do its due diligence before the start of the trial.
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Holifield will return to court Oct. 17 for rulings on additional motions.
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Yeah...moved to March 2020 and then July 2020 and then December 2020 and so on...
They're doing their best to NOT punish this beast
"DA's office announced it will pursue the death penalty"....wow unfortunately California has no real death penalty (Newsom de facto abolished the capital punishment in California).
 
These are the next 3 court dates for this case! I wish there was a pdf document like there was in Sierra's court orders

Department 3 10/17/2019 9:00AM Hearing: Other
Department 3 2/26/2020 1:30PM Jury Trial: Calendar Call
Department 3 3/2/2020 8:30AM Jury Trial
 
I alerted one of the mods for this case and thread to be moved to other forum cause they have a trial date
 
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