Former Bexar County Precinct 2 Constable Michelle Barrientes Vela was sentenced Wednesday to five years probation, 90 days in jail and 600 hours of community service.
during the trial on Aug. 30 that he believed Barrientes Vela had committed official oppression, that she essentially used her position of authority to deny another person’s rights.
“From the very beginning they had this idea that everything Michelle did was wrong,” Goss said. “The sentence has to match what she’s convicted of.”as part of a deal with prosecutors in late October that called for him to testify against his former boss.Whether Barrientes Vela encouraged Garcia toagainst another Pct. 2 deputy, Leonicio Moreno, in April 2019, was a key point of contention throughout the sentencing portion of her trial.
Goss, who called the investigation and subsequent arrest of Moreno a “farce,” said he, the judge and prosecutors would have known it was a faulty investigation but that Barrientes Vela did not know any better. A former Pct. 2 training instructor testified Tuesday that Garcia acted alone in getting a judge to sign the warrant to arrest Moreno.
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