Yolanda Saldivar Demands New Trial

Selena Quintanilla’s Killer Demands New Trial accuses Prosecutor of hiding evidence.

The convicted murderer of singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez has demanded a new trial despite being behind bars for the crime she committed back in 1995. Currently serving time in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional Institution Division at Mountain View Unit, Yolanda Saldivar recently filed a Second Writ of Habeas Corpus at the Waco Division of the United States District Court’s Waco Division.

According to the 58-year-old convict, in her request, claimed that the prosecutor in charge of her initial trial, Carlos Valdez, kept exculpatory material evidence that would have helped her defense to himself. The claim further stated that Valdez later released the same evidence to the public during a Spanish media interview, about two decades after the trial.

The exculpatory material evidence is a high pair of white high top Reebok Tennis Shoes and/or a Black Baseball Cap, which according to Salvidar claims, were worn by the Grammy-winning singer, and not her.

According to the filing, “The Petitioner paraphrases Mr. Valdez’s media interview where he stated that he and the defense counsel, the late Mr. Douglas Tinker, discussed what [evidence] would or would not be introduced to the jury.”  “How could this be? It is the jury, no less, that would decide the fate of Yolanda Saldivar, between a life sentence in prison or freedom. 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,” the filing further read.

Saldivar’s claims that the incident was never intentional, and stressed that it is illogical that the prosecution failed to present the evidence, considering that the bloodstains on the shoes would have implicated her. According to her, the exclusion could only mean that there was “a nefarious attempt to obscure a verdict against the Petitioner.”

The same filing also claimed that Valdez was aware that “those tennis shoes were the victims’ and keeping them facilitated the conviction of the Petitioner practicing a travesty of justice to the rule of law and violating the constitutional rights of the Petitioner.”

Recall that Saldivar pleaded not guilty to the murder of the “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” songstress during her prosecution in 1995, after her dramatic arrest by the police that lasted for over nine hours. Before her conviction, Saldivar was the 23-year-old late singer’s Texas-based boutiques and doubles as the founder of the Quintanilla-Perez’s fan club.