Yolanda Saldívar, who was convicted in the 1995 murder of the popular Tejano singer, claims new evidence exists that might exonerate her.
The petition, registered with the court in March, requested a new trial on the basis that the prosecution had access to evidence that her defense team did not.
In the filing, Saldívar claimed that a pair of White Reebok hightop tennis shoes and a black baseball cap, both of which Quintanilla-Perez was wearing when she was shot, existed in the case's evidence files but had not been shown to her defense attorney, and were thus being hidden from them. This, according to Saldivar's petition, denied her the right to due process and a fair trial.
Her writ as submitted to the court states,"The jury, not the defense or the prosecutor is the 'trier' of fact of all relevant material evidence and they alone should and did determine between conviction and acquittal." Estella Leak wipes away tears during a memorial tribute for Selena on April 2nd, 1996 while standing beside her sister, Olivia . Selena's convicted killer, Yolanda Saldivar, has just been denied a retrial after petitioning the court.by ex-prosecutor Carlos Valdez for KIII-TV, who produced proof that the clothing had always existed in a place accessible to both teams of attorneys.
"This says, 'DT, August 15th of 1995.' What that means is that Doug Tinker opened this and looked at the evidence that was in here. Mr. Tinker was the chief defense attorney for Yolanda Saldívar, so he had access to it. He had access to the evidence," Valdez said."He had access to the tennis shoes. Nobody was hiding them. They've been with the clerk the whole time.
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