The San Antonio woman says she is trying to reclaim her life after it was turned upside down nearly six years ago when Bexar County narcotics deputies raided her home and found more than 2 pounds of methamphetamine.
– A San Antonio woman who proved a confidential informant working with the Bexar County Sheriff’s office planted drugs in her home, leading to her arrest in 2017, is now fighting back with a lawsuit in federal court.
A search warrant approving the raid stated an informant had seen meth inside Sandoval’s home within 48 hours of investigators taking the warrant to a judge. The warrant mentions nothing about where the drugs may be located, but when deputies raided her home, Sandoval said they seemed to know exactly where to look.
“I just remember thinking, oh my God, oh my God. I just kept on saying that I had no idea,” Sandoval said. The raid happened in October of 2017, but Sandoval’s case wasn’t dismissed until May 2021, several months after the information provided by Sandoval led to the overturning of convictions for“I do feel that he did not act alone. I feel that, unfortunately, that the deputies were involved,” Sandoval said. “This is my fight for justice.”
While the Bexar County District Attorney’s office highly publicized its conviction integrity unit helping to overturn the convictions of John Cape and Louie Garcia and the dismissal of the case against Rexina Linan-Juarez, who died while waiting for her name to be cleared, Jakob said prosecutors continued to pressure Sandoval to take a plea deal in her case.
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