By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The man captured in California last spring and brought to Lewis County to face a 25-year-old murder charge is scheduled to plead guilty tomorrow in Lewis County Superior Court.
[1]Efren J. Triana
Carlos Vidal Guiterrez is accused in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Efren J. Triana in downtown Centralia in October 1986.
The 54-year-old was picked up by the U.S. Marshals’ Service in San Benito County in central California.
Prosecutors allege Guiterrez shot the Rochester resident when the two stepped outside La Adalitas tavern to fight on Oct. 25, 1986.
Guiterrez is charged with second-degree murder and is expected to plead guilty to second-degree murder, Lewis County Deputy prosecutor Will Halstead said today.
Halstead said he did not know if it would be a straight guilty plea or a so-called Alford plea.
Guiterrez faces a sentence of somewhere between a little more than 10 years and almost 14 years, Halstead said.
He will go before Judge James Lawler at 1 p.m.
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Read background in “Accused slayer of Rochester man in 1986 faces a judge today” from Wednesday April 6, 2011, here [2]