He spent almost 12 years behind bars for a crime, he says, he did not commit. While working on the story of the end of his imprisonment, it was impossible for me to move the victim's face away from my mind. I still see her pic, whenever I close my eyes.
From The Dallas Morning News.
Murder conviction overturned; man walks free in West Texas after 12 years
06:28 AM CDT on Monday, June 9, 2008
By OCTAVIO RIVERA LÓPEZ
April 29, 2008, will forever be engraved in Alberto Sifuentes' memory.
That Tuesday he walked out of the Lamb County jail in Littlefield, Texas, a free man after almost 12 years behind bars for a murder he says he didn't commit.
Mr. Sifuentes had been arrested, along with Jesús Ramírez, tried for capital murder and condemned to life in prison for the 1996 killing of Evangelina "Angie" Cruz, a clerk at the Jolly Roger store in Littlefield, a town about 40 miles northwest of Lubbock.
The mother of four was shot nine times in a robbery of the store.
The two men maintained for more than a decade that they weren't near the store on the night that Ms. Cruz was murdered.
Last month, a grand jury decided not to reindict the two Mexican nationals after a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned their convictions.
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