The State of Texas vs. Melissa

2020

Action / Documentary

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 83% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 22%
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 541 541

child abuse death row true crime

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Plot summary

Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and now faces her last appeal.

Director

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Sabrina Van Tassel

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Alfredo Padilla as Cameron County prosecuteor
John Pinkerman Photo
John Pinkerman as Psychologist
Margaret Schmucker Photo
Margaret Schmucker as Melissa's habeas lawyer
Alexandra Marie Photo
Alexandra Marie as Melissa's daughter
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 1 / 10

The documentary was biased. They did not report

The documentary was biased. They did not report the below from the actual beginning of the court documents. The below are statements from first hand witnesses The evidence presented in this case shows that, at about 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 17, 2007, paramedics were dispatched to an apartment where appellant lived with nine of her children and an adult male named Robert Alvarez, who was the father of at least seven of these children and whom appellant referred to as her husband. One of the paramedics (Nester) testified that, when the paramedics entered the apartment, they found Mariah unattended and lying on her back in the middle of the floor not breathing and with no pulse. Nester observed that appellant's "distant" and not "overly distressed" behavior was "so far out of the ordinary" that he "put it into the report." Nester also testified that he "noted the fact that [appellant] was not—she wasn't even within arm's reach of the child much less trying to gasp [sic], hold her, or trying to do anything to hold them [sic]." Doctors at the hospital noticed that Mariah's body had been "severely abused"; in addition to bruises "covering her body, there were bite marks on her back, one of her arms had been broken probably about two to seven weeks The chief forensic pathologist for Cameron and Hidalgo Counties (Farley), who conducted Mariah's autopsy on Monday, February 19, 2007, testified that Mariah's cause of death was "blunt force head trauma," which would have occurred within 24 hours prior to her death, and it would have been immediately apparent that Mariah was in distress and in need of medical attention. Farley testified that Mariah suffered "multiple contusions" to her head area and that "blunt force head trauma ... basically means, beat about the head with something—an object, a hand, a fist, or slammed." Farley testified that these injuries would not have been caused by falling down some stairs and that this was the most severe case of child abuse she had ever seen.
Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

I think it's crazy How close it came

I think it's crazy How close it came to her due date and it took so long for them to investigate this whole situation.?
Reviewed by R T 1 / 10

Extremely biased and one sided. Despite the evidence

Extremely biased and one sided. Despite the evidence showing that Melissa is responsible for her daughter's death, very few pieces of evidence were presented in the movie. And the ones that were, were twisted and/or explained away. The movie even allowed Melissa to slander her other daughter(a minor at the time) and suggest she was responsible for the death of her sibling with NO evidence at all to support the claim. The entire movie was just a feel-sorry-for-Melissa-she's-innocent spiel.
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