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Contents 1 date 2 Selena 3 Yolandas conviction date 4 Parole or no? 5 hispanic\latino 6 Accent 7 eligible for parole in 2025 7.1 Photo of Saldivar 7.2 Behind the Music appearance? 7.2.1 Bibliography

[edit] date

So does 1995 refer to Selena's death or Saldivar's conviction? Selena did die in 1994. -- Zoe Saldivar's conviction and Selena's death happend in the same year(Saldivar's conviction happend only 4 months 23 days after Selena's death March 31 )

[edit] Selena

Does anyone know the exact date in October of 1995 that Yolanda was convicted?

October 23, 1995 she was found guilty of her death

[edit] Yolandas conviction date

She was convicted on October 23, 1995!

[edit] Parole or no?

This article indicates parole eligibility at 30 years, Selena's article says no possibility of parole. Which is correct?

[edit] hispanic\latino

is she of latino\hispanic origin? because saldivar sounds spanish

saldivar is mexican american 

[edit] Accent

Mcmillin24 apparently believes that the stress is on i (ergo, "Saldívar"), but is this actually the case? Should it be Saldivár? --Nlu 07:20, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I adjusted the article name to accomodate the change made on March 31—I'm not entirely positive where the stress is located. Unfortunately, a Google search just now reveals her name might actually be "Yolanda Saldivar," without any diacritical marks, and the user who made the change months ago may have been incorrect in doing so. McMillin24 ^(talk) 21:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Here's the input of a Spanish teacher with graduate work in the language: If the emphasis were on the final syllable, no written accent would be needed, as this would be in conformation with the rules of Spanish. (With the exception of exclamatory or interrogatory words, written accents on multisyllable words in Spanish are used only to indicate emphases that depart from the basic rules.) For the record, a Google search that showed no accent marks would not be sufficient to show that it should not have a written accent; many online users and sources ignore these special characters. Beyond that, my anecdotal memory from viewing many programs about Selena -- and therefore, for obvious reasons, this woman as well -- is that there was indeed an emphasis on the middle syllable, which would then be written Saldívar.Lawikitejana 19:24, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] eligible for parole in 2025

http://www.cnn.com/US/9510/selena/10-26/index.html

[edit] Photo of Saldivar

http://www.mugshots.com/Criminal/Killers/Yolanda+Saldivar.htm

I don't know how to add it, but here's the link for anyone who would care to post it.Jlujan69 07:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Behind the Music appearance?

While I hate to further the possible attention hunger of a person like this, the purposes of the encyclopedia dictate that I suggest adding a line or two about her claims in VH1's 1998 profile of Selena in the Behind the Music series. Saldívar claimed early in the program that she would direct her interviewer to secret evidence that would show she was protecting the singer by hiding damaging information. Late in the show, the interviewer visits the indicated site, but finds nothing to support the woman's claims. It's not something I'd want to add just because it's titillating, but because it's informative and was newsworthy at the time. It also tells something about her credibility.

[edit] Bibliography

Many of the articles cited at the end of the Selena article probably belong here as well, or even instead, as they focus on the murder trial and testimony given there. Lawikitejana 19:51, 15 August 2006 (UTC)