He did not testify at his trial. Green later pleaded guilty and received a 50-year prison term. Evidence showed the pair planned the robbery for a few weeks and waited outside the locked place during the overnight hours until employees opened the door to take out the trash. Nguyen was waiting outside to pick up Theresa Fraga from work when he was herded into the cooler with the Fraga cousins while San Miguel waited with Phelan for a time-lock safe to open. There is nothing I could do to stop what happened.
People react in the heat of the moment, in the heat of deep emotions.
When something happens out of instinct, we just do it. We don't do it out of intent. We don't do it on purpose. San Miguel was well known to police. He had been arrested 9 times and was accused at age 16 of shooting another person.