SAN JOSE — A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge has been compelled to revisit his recent decision to grant the jail release of a Sunnyvale murder defendant ahead of his trial for a deadly shooting, after prosecutors challenged the ruling in an effort to keep him in custody.

Judge Hector Ramon ruled Oct. 31 that 33-year-old Vicente Aguilera Chavez, charged earlier this year alongside another man with a 2017 alleged gang shooting in a Sunnyvale night club parking lot, deserved pretrial release in part on the strength of Aguilera’s crime-free record since he was released from prison in 2022 after completing an unrelated burglary sentence.

Ramon’s ruling in part echoed Aguilera’s attorney, Deputy Public Defender Jennifer Redding, who filed a motion last month seeking his release. Reddin

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