Underwood explained in the document the reason for this was “so that the District Attorney could state that the members of the DA’s Office had not been in contact with the Hoffmann family and could allege in the State’s Motion for Continuance that they had not been in contact with the Hoffmann family.” On August 18, the day attorney Underwood was appointed to represent the Hoffmanns, assistant district attorney Curtis Cox filed for continuance of the previously scheduled hearing by Medrano stating the D.A.’s office could not locate Hoffmann’s, according to the court document.Īs stated in the court filing, Underwood claimed that Roger Rodriguez told the Hoffmann’s that they will receive a call from the D.A.’s office on that Monday and to not answer that phone call. Valdez did not know what the emails contained and where it was being sent to. Yvonne Rosales.Īccording to the document, Mrs. Roger Rodriguez is a municipal court judge in the Village of Vinton and legal counselor of D.A. The document stated that Anne Rodriguez along with her husband Roger Rodriguez composed the emails from Mrs. ACCUSED OF SENDING THE “HOFFMANN EMAILS”Īccording to Thursday’s court filing, the emails were sent from Rosa Maria Valdez Garcia’s phone, but were not composed by her or any member of the Hoffmann family. The recusal motion was dropped on September 27 and Medrano remained on the case.ĭ.A. office’s motion for recusal of judge Sam Medrano from the case, it has not yet taken place. The hearing was set for September 13, but due to D.A. Medrano appointed attorney Justin Underwood on August 17 to represent the Hoffmann’s and locate them. to find the Hoffmann’s so they could testify in the hearing on the authenticity of the emails.ĭ.A.’s office requested for the hearing to be postponed and claimed that they couldn’t locate the Hoffmann’s that they were last in contact with on July 1 hearing, when the gag order was put in place. The alleged “officials,” as the report stated, attempted to have the family sign documents which the “officials” would not show, according to the report.ĭuring the hearing Medrano was seemingly upset with the statement sent by Rosales and issued a gag order that forbids anyone involved with the case, including lawyers and witnesses from any party, to speak of it publicly.ĭuring the hearing Medrano said that the D.A.’s office has not yet filed any motions, requests, witness lists or any filings regarding the case so far.īreaking of this order by any party can result in imprisonment and fines.Īfter the alleged Hoffmann emails that seem to have broken the gag order, judge Sam Medrano scheduled a status hearing with the D.A.’s office to address the emails and ordered the D.A. The Hoffmann’s were able to travel back and forth to meet with their attorney Underwood in El Paso under Sentri Pass and a laser visa until September 17, according to the report that stated officials with the Mexican Investigations Department appeared at the family’s home that day. Valdez and her sons, Alexander Hoffmann Valdez and Thomas Hoffmann, who live in Juarez, as well as promising them that they would receive visas and college education in return for cooperating with the D.A. was intimidating the family, consisting of Mrs. Yvonne Rosales’s legal counselor, and his wife Anna Rodriguez. Valdez’s phone, but alleges the emails were composed by Roger Rodriguez, D.A. The 10-page document stated that the emails were sent from Mrs. KTSM first reported on a set of emails sent to first sent to local media on August 4 of this year, signed by Alexander Hoffmann Valdez and appearing to come from the email address of Rosa Maria Valdez Garcia, son and widow of Alexander Gerhard Hoffmann who was killed in the Walmart shooting on August 3, 2019. Thursday morning a court filing signed by attorney Justin Underwood, appointed to represent the Hoffmann family, was submitted as a review of alleged ‘gag order’ violation that was put in place on July 1 of this year and that forbids anyone involved with the Walmart shooting case to speak of it. EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM) – Who is impersonating the Walmart shooting victim’s family? The latest court filing alleges district attorney Yvonne Rosales and her legal counselor are behind it, implicating the breaking of the gag order put in place for the Walmart case.
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