Two days before the scheduled date for the performance of the Latin Melissa LucioOn Monday, a Texas appeals court announced the suspension of the sentence and requested a lower court to review the case, something that could lead to a new trial after she spent 14 years in prison.
“The state has given us the opportunity to go back to court and present the evidence of Melissa’s innocence that no court has been able to analyze,” he explained at a news conference shortly after the decision was announced. vanessa potkinrepresentative of the Innocence Project, one of the organizations that has provided legal aid to Lucio, accused of the 2007 murder of her 2-year-old daughter.
When a huge water storm hit Austin, the capital of Texas, John Lucio and Bobby Álvarez, two of Melissa’s sons, received the good news in Gatesville, the small town in rural Texas where their mother is imprisoned.
Until there, they had moved to spend as much time as possible together during what would be their mother’s last hours, who was a… lethal injection this Wednesday.
Source: El heraldo
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