Convicted Murderer Serving Life Gets New Sentence

By Michelle Casady, Staff Writer, San Antonio Express-News
Fri, 03/06/2015 - 6:10pm

Joseph Pena, who has served 19 years and two months of a life sentence for murder, won an appeal and will be released soon.

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