Bulletin: Florida: Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin: Death Row; Application for new trial based on blood evidence tested after his conviction and a claim that a relative of the victims confessed to the crimes. "Aguirre was convicted of murdering Cheryl Williams and her mother, Carol Bareis, in Seminole County in 2004. The lawyer said 155 blood stain samples were taken from the women's trailer but was never tested before the trial. Once tested after the conviction, none matched Aguirre but some matched Williams' daughter, Samantha Williams. "Her DNA is found in eight blood stains throughout the crime scene in key locations," Boney said. He also said Samantha Williams has mental health issues and had been involuntarily committed to a hospital three years before the murder after threatening her mother. It was among 60 times she was involuntarily committed before and since the murders. Boney said Samantha Williams told a friend in 2010 that she committed the murders and that there were demons in her head." Associated Press.

"A lawyer for a man on death row for a double murder more than a decade ago told the state Supreme Court Thursday that his client should get a new trial based on blood evidence tested after his conviction and a claim that a relative of the victims confessed to the crimes. Lindsey Boney, a lawyer for Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin, said his client is innocent and should be retried. Aguirre was convicted of murdering Cheryl Williams and her mother, Carol Bareis, in Seminole County in 2004. The lawyer said 155 blood stain samples were taken from the women's trailer but was never tested before the trial. Once tested after the conviction, none matched Aguirre but some matched Williams' daughter, Samantha Williams. "Her DNA is found in eight blood stains throughout the crime scene in key locations," Boney said. He also said Samantha Williams has mental health issues and had been involuntarily committed to a hospital three years before the murder after threatening her mother. It was among 60 times she was involuntarily committed before and since the murders. Boney said Samantha Williams told a friend in 2010 that she committed the murders and that there were demons in her head. He said in 2012, Williams also told her neighbors she killed her mother and grandmother. Justices questioned the context of the latter confession because it was made during an argument in which she was threatening the neighbors. "That's a seriously mentally challenged individual who has a mother who has expressed that she was afraid of her and now we have confessions that she did it and her DNA," Justice Barbara Pariente said to Assistant Attorney General Jim Riecks, who argued that Aguirre's conviction should stand. A telephone number for Williams was disconnected and she couldn't be reached for comment, but she denied killing her mother and grandmother during a previous court hearing."

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