SANTA CRUZ — Attorneys laid out their strategies in opening statements Tuesday morning for the murder trial of Jason Cortez. Prosecutor Ilia McKinney, a Santa Cruz County assistant district attorney, told jurors that Cortez, 29, was one of two men who moved into a Santa Cruz County Jail cell with 24-year-old German Carrillo a month before his death. At the direction of leadership for a jail gang, Cortez allegedly bound and gagged, stabbed and strangled Carrillo in October 2019, then helped cover up his death for two days. McKinney said evidence would show that Carrillo, who himself was jailed and...