Thirty years ago, Musical Legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez He was killed by the president of his admirers club, Yolanda Saldívar. During the last three decades, Saldívar has fulfilled its life imprisonment in Texas.
Now 64 years, Saldívar has a request for probation under review, according to the online records of the Texas Criminal Justice Department. Sunday, is willing to probation for the first time.
According to a spokeswoman for the Board of Perdons and Paroles of Texas, your case will be voted at or around then, but there is no exact date for the decision to be launched.
Here is everything you need to know about Selena, Saldívar and the probation process in Texas:
Born in 1971, Quintanilla-Pérez demonstrated an incredible vocal gift in childhood, at the head of Selena and the Dinos with his brothers AB and Suzette Quintanilla.
Its superstriente arrived in the early 1990s, with its unique combination of Texan, Pop, Cumbia and other musical styles that manifest in Great successes like “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” “Like the flower,” “forbidden love,” “I don’t have any more” and “you just.”
Known worldwide as the Queen of Tejano, or even more simply as Selena, broke barriers for women in Latin music. He opened the gates for a new generation of contemporary artists of Latin ancestry who would enjoy great popularity among the conventional American public. He often sang in Spanish and spoke in English, reflecting an intercultural identity that resonated with the listeners.
She won her first Grammy in 1994 for the best Mexican/Mexican-American album for “Live”, becoming the first female artist of Texan to win the category. I was only 23 years old when she was killed the following year. But his legacy endures for Mexico, Mexicans, Texans, Latinos and beyond.
His Póstumo English album launched a few months after his death, “Dreaming of You”, headed the Billboard 200, with successes such as “I I have fallen Fall in Love” and “Dreaming of You”. In 1997, a Biographical film about his life, “Selena” would quickly become a classic, further launching the lead race Jennifer López.
In 2017, he received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the moment, according A spokesman for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the crowd was the largest for a fame walking ceremony, breaking a 1998 record established by the spectators in the presentation of the star of Mexican singer Vicente Fernández.
In 2021, he received a posthumous achievement prize for the Grammys life. There was no tribute.
Yolanda Saldívar, former nurse, was the founder and president of the Selena Fans Club. He was also manager of the Selena, Selena, etc. clothing boutiques, but was fired in early 1995 after the missing money was discovered.
On March 31, 1995, Selena went to Saldívar’s room in The Days Inn Motel at Corpus Christi, Texas, to collect the commercial records she needed for a tax presentation, according to judicial testimony. He followed a confrontation.
Selena was shot in the back with a .38 caliber revolver in the motel room, ran outside and collapsed in the lobby. She was urgently taken to a nearby hospital and declared dead about an hour later.
Motel employees testified to Selena called “Yolanda” in “Sala 158” as their attacker.
“I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t want to kill anyone,” said a sobbing out during a 9 -hour confrontation with the police, during which he held a gun in his head. She told the Police that she had bought the .38 caliber revolver to commit suicide.
The trial was transferred to Houston due to great advertising.
Prosecutors argued that Saldívar shot the 23 -year -old after the singer’s family suspected that the embezzlement of $ 30,000 was embezzlement. The defense argued that the weapon accidentally fired.
On October 23, 1995, the jury condemned Saldívar for first -degree murder. She was sentenced to life imprisonment, with the possibility of probation after 30 years, from 2025.
Saldívar did not face the death penalty because the crime did not contain any of the aggravating circumstances required under the Texas Law, such as multiple murder or murder committed during a robbery.
In 1999, the Criminal Appeals Court In Austin He rejected the first depth of Saldívar for a new trial. In 2000, his lawyer Bill Berchelmann asked the State to review the trial. He argued that prosecutors mistakenly dismissed the potential jury due to the breed, they did not reveal the criminal record of a witness and made inappropriate comments in court. He said the police also violated Saldívar rights when questioning her after she requested a lawyer.
In 2009, Saldívar lost an appeal because he appeared in the wrong county. He had asked the Court to order an appeal filed nine years earlier in the nut countless to advance, but the highest criminal appeals Court said that it should have been submitted in Harris County, where it was judged and convicted.
It is imprisoned in the Prison Unit Patrick L. O’Daniel in Gatesville, Texas, about 90 minutes north of Austin.
In Texas, the probation division of the State Criminal Justice Department identifies inmates six months before the date of their initial eligibility of probation and extracts their case file for review. The eligibility notice of an inmate for probation is sent to the officials involved in the trial, any victim and relatives of the victims.
An institutional probation officer of the Board of Forgives and Paroles de Texas interviews an inmate and prepares a summary for the Board. The victim or members of the victim’s family can provide a written statement and may appear in person before the members of the Board.
The inmate archive is sent to the Board of probation and is voted by a panel of three people. The panel will vote on a case just before the probation of the prison’s probation eligibility and most of the two votes are needed for a final decision.
In Texas, the Board does not carry out public probation audiences. The probation release decisions are taken independently by each panel member.
The representatives of the family members of Quintanilla-Pérez did not immediately respond to the request for comments of Associated Press this week.
A denial of the panel will include the date of the next time an inmate is eligible for probation.
Saldívar was convicted of first degree murder, one of the crimes where state law dictates that the next review after a denial can be done between one to five years from the date of denial.
Panel approval could include special conditions that the intern will have to continue while on probation. The processing time for a release differs from one case to another. Once a liberation certificate is issued with an approved residence plan, it will be audited by the Classification and Records Department of the Texas Criminal Justice Department and a release date is calculated. In general, these processes can take two to six weeks to complete.
The governor cannot veto a probation decision of the Board of Indults. The governor, on the recommendation of the majority of the Pardones Board, can grant clemency. That includes forgiveness, switches and reimbursements.
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Associated Press’s reporter, Juan A. Lozano, contributed to this Houston report.
