Texas, USA: San Antonio Four convictions wiped after false anti-lesbian claims led to years in jail

San Antonio Four Cleared

A Bexar County judge on Monday signed papers erasing the criminal histories of four women wrongly convicted in 1994 of sexually assaulting two girls, according to a News4 report.  Elizabeth Ramirez, Kristie Mayhugh, Cassandra Rivera, and Anna Vasquez — known as the “San Antonio Four” during coverage of their high-profile case — were wrongly convicted of gang-raping Ramirez’s nieces, then 7 and 9. The women had recently come out as lesbians, which prosecutors seized on as a motive.

Ultimately, they served 15 years in prison.

 

Continue reading at: https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2018/12/03/judge-clears-the-record-for-the-wrongly-convicted-san-antonio-four (Source)

One response to “Texas, USA: San Antonio Four convictions wiped after false anti-lesbian claims led to years in jail

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