An Army veteran was sentenced to 62 years in prison for killing a Dallas man, but he says his cooperation helped bring the mastermind behind the murder-for-hire plot to justice.
wants Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to intervene and shorten his six-decade prison sentence, saying that he deserves leniency because he helped put his girlfriend behind bars once he knew she had lied about being abused and “used” him in an elaborate murder-for-hire plot.
Calvert called Faith’s lies, which included violent sexual assaults by multiple people, “some of the most sadistic things you can possibly dream up."Jennifer Faith, a speech therapist, and her husband, an IT director with American Airlines, had been together for 15 years and had a teenage daughter when he was fatally shot. During her marriage, Jennifer Faith reconnected with Lopez, who she dated in high school. The pair had a seven-month “emotional affair,” Dallas County prosecutors said.
By April, Jennifer Faith told Lopez that her husband had discovered their relationship — and had begun abusing her. At one point, Lopez later told Calvert, she said her husband had sexually assaulted her and she’d awoken to him performing CPR on her, according to a transcript of the interview obtained by “Dateline.”
To make the killing look like a robbery, Lopez removed Jamie Faith’s wedding ring, punched Jennifer Faith and bound her hands, Lopez later told Calvert, according to a transcript of the interview obtained by “Dateline.” There were “other avenues Darrin could take besides driving across multiple states and murdering someone in cold blood,” Calvert said. “But that’s the option that he chose.”
In court, Lopez’s lawyer argued that his client believed Jennifer Faith was facing immediate harm when he fatally shot her husband — a use of self-defense that can be considered justified under Texas law.In an interview with NBC News, a juror in Lopez’s case recalled that it took little time for the jury to reach a verdict. The juror, who asked not to be identified because he didn’t want to be publicly associated with the case, said the group didn’t find the self-defense argument persuasive.
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