Death Row mum 'actually innocent' and justice finally served thanks to Kim Kardashian

Mum-of-14 Melissa Lucio was jailed connected the ground of the flawed testimonies of a Texas Ranger and Medical Examiner, with a justice believing immoderate tenable assemblage would find her guiltless today

A pistillate connected death row successful Texas is having her sanction cleared aft a justice recommended her condemnation beryllium overturned owed to caller grounds suggesting her daughter's decease was accidental.

Mum-of-14 Melissa Lucio was jailed successful 2008 aft being accused of sidesplitting her girl Mariah Alvarez, two, aft she turned purple and unresponsive astatine their location successful Brownsville, Texas. Lucio has maintained her innocence ever since, roping successful mega prima influencer Kim Kardashian to protestation her innocence. The parent claims that Mariah fell down a formation of stairs and that flawed grounds was utilized to condemnation her to death.

The justice presiding implicit the case, Arturo Nelson, made a bold comment, saying that Lucio is "actually innocent", adding that prosecutors withheld grounds during her proceedings that she has present seen, and been convinced of the woman's innocence, KPRC reports. In tribunal documents, Nelson wrote: “In airy of the caller evidence, determination is specified wide and convincing grounds of innocence that nary rational juror would person convicted (Lucio)."

When her assemblage was discovered, prosecutors accidental determination were respective signs of trauma and bruising, including scratches and wound marks, covering the youngster erstwhile paramedics tried to revive her connected February 17, 2007. Dr Norma Jean told the tribunal the origin of decease was caput trauma, adding that her injuries "could lone person been caused by intentional carnal maltreatment exerted wrong 24 hours of her death.”

Her grounds swayed the assemblage by suggesting determination was nary anticipation the toddler's injuries could person been the effect of a fall. After the girl's assemblage was found, Texas Ranger Victor Escalon interrogated Lucio, and decided her guilt connected the spot.

Escalon said: “Escalon testifying that (Lucio) was not making oculus interaction with the researcher and had her caput down and, accordingly: close determination and then, knew she did something. And she was ashamed of what she did, and she had hard clip admitting what had occurred.”

Lucio told him the girl's information had deteriorated successful the 2 days betwixt her autumn and death. She had been vomiting and her jaw had locked, but Lucio and her hubby Robert Alvarez failed to question aesculapian care.

The mother-of-14 was shown a photograph of her daughter's corpse, which prompted a confession successful which she admitted to slapping, pinching and adjacent biting the youngster. She said she was liable for her death, but didn't admit causing it.

Eight of Lucio's brood were taken into the custody of Child Protective Services. One of them told constabulary he'd seen his sister falling. According to Nelson, the assemblage decided connected their verdict based connected Farley's mendacious testimony, and the Texas Ranger's incorrect report.

Back successful 2022, Kardashian became engaged successful the lawsuit aft 10 of Lucio's kids sent a missive to the authorities politician and parole board, begging them to driblet the decease sentence.

“We inquire you to spare the beingness of our mother, Melissa Lucio. We inquire you for closure. We inquire for peace,” the missive said.