Known as the San Antonio Four at the time, the Latina lesbians whose 1998 sexual assault convictions were thrown out in 2016 and their records expunged, are trying to help do the same for a gay Apache convicted in the 1981 murder of a Catholic priest in Odessa.
Hurtado and the other three, who remain friends, are now advocating on behalf of James Harry Reyos, who has either been in prison or on parole since 1983.said, her client was convicted based on a false confession he gave and what the jury called “his characteristics.”
“Of course, now we know, that’s code for his homosexuality and for the fact that he’s Apache, Native American,” Clayton said.“That’s the reason why now we think we have a real shot at getting James exonerated,” Clayton said. She said Hurtado, Elizabeth Ramirez, Anna Vasquez and Kristie Mayhugh convey to her client, “We are here for you. We’ve lived this life. We can support you in a way that nobody else can.”
“We all know what it’s like to be incarcerated, pulled away from our family behind lies, crimes that never happen,” Ramirez said.“You really believe in your innocence, you fight all the way, clear your name,” Reyos said. The women learned about Reyos through Deb Esquenazi, the award-winning filmmaker who did a documentary about the San Antonio Four, “
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