I don't know for certain because I can't find him to ask, but I'm guessing that Michael Jump regrets that he ever began dating and then sharing an apartment with Gemma Jayde Ramirez of Costa Mesa.
Jump and Ramirez had been dating for about six months in 2008 when she got him arrested and hauled off to jail for allegedly pulling a knife on her.
There's reason to believe she fabricated the story against Jump just to be . . . well . . . Satanic.
]
When Jump returned to the apartment after his release from custody he told Ramirez he wanted to
break up and so she did what every normal, healthy person would do: she
went outside, collapsed in the street and began screaming hysterically.
Eventually he got her back into the apartment, told her he was tired of arguing and went to bed.
This was a terrible mistake only a doomed character in a horror flick would make before his grotesque demise.
At
some point during the night, Jump awoke to find “a butcher's knife
protruding from his chest” and his batshit crazy girlfriend standing over
him, according to court records.
“You are never going to leave me,” she told him.
With
blood pouring from his chest, Jump removed the plunged weapon, grabbed the woman to prevent her
from using the knife again and ran to a telephone to dial 911.
A 2010 Orange County jury convicted Ramirez of attempted murder and Superior Court Judge James Patrick Marion** sentenced her to visit a California prison.
Ramirez
appealed, claiming that police violated her constitutional rights by entering the
apartment without a warrant. She also said her defense lawyer had been incompetent because he
didn't adequately blame her actions on Battered Women's Syndrome (BWS).
But this week a California Court of Appeal
based in Santa Ana considered and rejected her arguments. According to a
three-justice appellate panel, officers had a “reasonable basis” to
enter the apartment to see if anyone else had been
injured given the existence of a blood trail inside the unit. They also weren't impressed by the BWS assertion.
Upshot: Ramirez's prison visit will last nine years and then, oh man, she's back with us in society.
(**Marion, one of Orange County's best Superior Court judges, died last July at the age of 58.)
Follow OC Weekly on Twitter @ocweekly or on Facebook!
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
2 Replies to “Orange County's Batshit Crazy Girlfriend of the Month! Congratulations Gemma Ramirez!”