2 Brothers to Stand Trial in 1988 Slaying : Camarillo: Jorge Rosales, 17, was found shot to death in a field after a party where the defendants’ mother was hurt.

More than 2 1/2 years after 17-year-old Jorge Rosales was found shot to death in a Camarillo field, two brothers were ordered to stand trial Monday in the slaying.

Prosecutors had waited since July, 1988, for police to track down one of the two men, 20-year-old Gregory Hines, who was arrested in December in Minnesota after evading police in three other states.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Donald C. Glynn said sheriff’s detectives learned that Hines had married an American Indian in Seattle and solicited information from her tribe that helped them trail him through Spokane, Wash., and Missoula, Mont., leading them eventually to Minnesota.

Minneapolis police arrested Gregory Hines on Dec. 3. Soon thereafter, Glynn filed charges against Hines’ brother, Alexander Hines, 32, who was serving an 18-year term after his conviction last December in Woodland, Calif., on a sexual assault charge.

On Monday, Superior Court Judge Steven Z. Perren ordered the Hines brothers bound over for trial on murder charges after the preliminary hearing. The two are being held in Ventura County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bond each until their arraignment in Superior Court, scheduled for Feb. 11.

The two were arrested shortly after Jorge’s death, but prosecutors released them for lack of evidence and Gregory Hines fled, Glynn said.

Because the case developing against Gregory was the stronger of the two, prosecutors were not ready to go to trial until they found him, Glynn said.

Defense attorneys Robert Willey and William C. Maxwell argued Monday that Glynn provided no evidence during the hearing that the Hines brothers had a motive to kill Jorge, an Oxnard High School student.

But Perren ordered the Hines brothers bound over for trial, citing testimony from the hearing about a party brawl that injured the brothers’ mother, a shotgun seen in Alexander’s car and a mist of Jorge’s blood found on Gregory’s shoes.

Shortly after midnight on July 16, 1988, Jorge went to Gregory Hines’ garage to attend a beer party, testified Jennie Venegas, another party-goer, who knew the victim by the name George Rivera.

About 3:30 a.m., two young men began quarreling over a girl and the party erupted into a bottle-throwing brawl, Venegas testified. Several people were injured, including the Hines brothers’ mother, Beatrix Haynes, who was blinded in one eye by a thrown bottle, Venegas said.

“I guess her eye got poked out with the bottle,” Venegas testified. “I seen she was hurt afterwards, that her eye was busted.”

Haynes was taken by ambulance to St. John’s Regional Medical Center, followed by her sons and other party-goers including Jorge and Venegas, Venegas testified.

The brothers, especially Alexander, seemed upset as they waited in the emergency room, Venegas testified. “He was very upset. He was yelling that he was going to get somebody for what they done to his mother. He was going to kill them.”

Another party-goer, Yolanda Rodriguez, testified that she heard Gregory Hines say he “was going to get somebody for what they did to his mom.”

After a while, the brothers had calmed down and talked to Jorge about leaving the hospital “to go have some more beer,” Venegas testified. “George was volunteering to go,” and they left with him about 4:30 a.m., she testified.

About 90 minutes later, the Hines brothers returned alone, she said.

Jorge’s mother, Maria Rosales, wiped her eyes during the testimony.

According to his death certificate, Jorge Rosales’ body was found in a Camarillo field at the intersection of Ventura Boulevard and Central Avenue at 6:20 a.m. that morning. He had been shot twice in the head with a shotgun at close range, Glynn said.

Sheriff’s criminalist Margaret Schaeffer testified that spatters of blood matching Jorge’s blood were found on shoes that police confiscated from Gregory Hines at 5:25 that afternoon.

The spray of blood probably came from someone who had been shot within one or two feet of the shoes’ wearer, Schaeffer testified.