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| Two Texas Inmates Ask To Get Married |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/24/2003 |
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Diane Zamora, serving a life sentence for the 1995 murder of a teenager she thought was trying to steal her boyfriend, wants to marry an inmate with whom she has been corresponding by mail. The would-be groom is Steven Mora, 27, an inmate at the Goree Unit at Huntsville, who is finishing up a four-year prison stay on a retaliation charge for threatening someone involved in one of his previous cases for theft, burglary, auto theft and the like, the Houston Chronicle reported in its March 13 editions. Zamora, now 25, is at the Mountain View Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, a maximum-security prison near Gatesville. Zamora is in prison for killing Adrianne Jones, a 16-year-old Mansfield High School sophomore, on Dec. 4, 1995. The murder went unsolved for nine months. Then, Zamora was arrested at the Naval Academy, where she was a freshman honor student, and her then-boyfriend, David Graham, was arrested at the Air Force Academy, where he was a freshman. Both were convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison, and must serve 40 years before they're eligible for parole. That would be 2036. In a March 2002 letter to Bexar County Clerk Gerry Rickhoff in San Antonio, Mora asked for a marriage license, hoping that he and Zamora can wed through what is called a double proxy. In such an arrangement, substitutes are appointed to act as the individual prisoners during the ceremonies. The couple's request for a double-proxy wedding is an unusual one for prison officials. 'We have proxy marriages all the time,' prison spokesman Larry Fitzgerald said, but added he could not recall a double-proxy wedding. Two ceremonies are conducted when proxy marriages take place, Fitzgerald said: A civil ceremony in the free world with a proxy standing in for the inmate, and another ceremony conducted in prison by the prison chaplain, with a proxy standing in for the free spouse. In a double-proxy wedding, four stand-ins and three ceremonies would probably be needed, Fitzgerald said -- a free-world ceremony with two proxies, and two prison ceremonies with one proxy each. The Bexar County clerk's office initially denied Zamora and Mora their license and requested an opinion from the Texas attorney general's office on whether marriage licenses may be issued to two absent applicants. Attorney General Greg Abbott responded last month, saying the Bexar County clerk could do so. Rickhoff hasn't issued a marriage license yet and says he is not sure he will. 'Attorney general's opinions are just that,' Rickhoff said. 'Opinions. And Bexar County is a long way from Austin.' |
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