Sources from the Texas Criminal Justice said Saldívar, who has been behind bars for three decades, has its first possibility of bail release on March 30 and that his case “is under review.”
They detailed that these processes usually take six months.
The family recently told the press that “is regretful” and For the first time he would be admitting his guilt for the crime perpetrated on March 31, 1995.
Meanwhile, the Quintanilla, led by the patriarch Abraham Quintanillathe father of the artist, oppose the early liberation of the inmate.
Saldívar, 63, fulfills his sentence in the women’s prison in Mountain View, in the city of Gatesville, and this is his first opportunity to request probation.
Over the years, He has insisted that the shot that ended the life of the so-called Tex-Mex Queen was accidental. However, now his family declared the newspaper The New York Post He admitted that the bullet was intentional, which, according to legal experts could be a strategy before the Board.
Saldívar “knows that what he did was wrong and assumes responsibility, but he was reacting to the way he was confronted,” a relative to the New York newspaper on the tragic encounter with the artist in a motel in Corpus Christi (Texas).
During the trial, according to witnesses and the defendant herself, the meeting was intended to recover financial documents after discovering irregularities in the Administration of Saldívar as president of her admirers club.
The conversation between the two turned tense and, when Selena tried to leave, Saldívar took out a revolver and shot her in the back. The singer managed to get out of the room and ask for help, but died minutes later in a hospital.
Saldívar says Selena “approached him very aggressively,” added his relative to the newspaper. “She was very baffled by how energetic she was being Selena. Everything happened very fast. If Selena had confronted her otherwise, this would never have happened,” he explained.
Abraham Quintanilla, Selena’s father, has reiterated in interviews that the family opposes any possibility of liberation from Saldívar. “There is no regret that can return us to Selena,” he said.
The artist’s followers have also expressed indignation in social networks, promoting campaigns so that the authorities deny the probation of probation.
The Texas probation Board will take into account several factors to evaluate the request for Saldívar, including its prison behavior, the impact of the crime in the community and its willingness to reintegrate to society.
Criminal law experts point out that due to the severity of the case and media pressure, the possibilities of being released are reduced.