Houston – The woman condemned for killing the musical legend of Texan Selena Quintanilla-Perez Probation has been denied after spending decades after bars for fatally shooting the young singer in a Texas motel in 1995, the State’s probation board announced Thursday.
Yolanda Saldívar It is fulfilling life imprisonment in the Unit of the Patrick L. O’Daniel prison in Gatesville, Texas. A panel of three members of the Board of Perdons and Paroles de Texas voted not to release it. The panel said his case will be eligible to be reviewed again by probation in 2030.
The singer known for her fans as Simply Selena was one of the first Mexico to reach the conventional music scene and was about to cross the pop market in English when she was killed.
Saldívar founded Selena’s fans club and had been the singer’s clothing boutiques manager, Selena, etc., until she was fired in early March 1995 after the missing money was discovered.
Selena a Corpus Christi NativeHe was 23 when he was shot on his back with a caliber revolver.
Motel employees testified that Selena called “Yolanda” in “Sala 158” as his attacker.
“I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t want to kill anyone,” said a sobbing out during a nine -hour confrontation with the police. She told the Police that she had bought the .38 caliber revolver to commit suicide.
More than 50,000 people lined up to see Selena’s body the day before he rested in Seaside Memorial Park on April 3, 1995, only 13 days before his 24th birthday.
Saldívar’s trial was transferred to Houston due to the advertising that surrounds the case. Saldívar testified that he intended to commit suicide during the confrontation with Selena, but that the weapon failed.
On October 23, 1995, a jury in Houston condemned Saldívar of first degree murder. She was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of probation after 30 years.
While she was in prison, Saldívar, a former nurse, obtained her legal assistant and associated title in criminal justice and has filed several complaints of civil rights that allege abuse by the State’s prison system, according to judicial records. He also helped other inmates to present requests.
In judicial documents submitted in 2016, Saldívar said he was detained in protective custody, which means that he was segregated from other inmates, because prison officials were worried about their safety due to the nature of “high profile” of his case. She presented several appeals of her conviction, but all were rejected.
Selena, “the Queen of Tejano,” rose to stardom and won a Grammy during a musical boom in Tejano in the early 1990s. Her successes include “Bidi Bidi well” “Like the flower,” “forbidden love,” “I don’t have any more” and “you just.”
“Dreaming of You”, his English album in English released a few months after his death, headed the Billboard 200 and presented successes “I Can Fall in Love” and “Dreaming of You”. Jennifer López touched the singer in “Selena”, a Biography of 1997.
The Grammys awarded Selena an Achievement Award for posthumous life in 2021.
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