SAN ANTONIO – In a wonder transfer on Monday afternoon, the District Attorney’s Office dropped the capital murder charge for a lady who was once accused of being the mastermind at the back of a murder-for-hire plot in 2019.
According to on-line courtroom information, Christina Rodriguez, who was once already a convicted felon, had her case pushed aside because of inadequate proof and was once launched from prison past due Monday.
Rodriguez in conjunction with her husband Manuel Cantu and brother-in-law John Cantu had been all arrested and charged with capital murder after Mike Perez was once discovered useless on a highway at the South Side.
John Cantu, the cause guy, went on trial on this case in September. During the trial, a lady named Carmen Hernandez informed the jury she no longer most effective witnessed Rodriguez plan the murder and pay John Cantu $500, but in addition witnessed the murder happening.
John Cantu was once discovered to blame through a jury and sentenced to 70 years in jail.
Manuel Cantu on Monday, additionally had his capital murder charge pushed aside and he was once given an eight-year plea deal at the lesser charge of tampering with a human corpse.
Recently the lead prosecutor in this case, Andrew Fields resigned from the District Attorney’s Office and the case was once assigned new prosecutors.
12 on Tuesday morning reached out to the District Attorney’s Office asking why Rodriguez’s case was once pushed aside and if Field’s resignation had the rest to do with it. We are watching for their reaction.
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