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Attorneys David Schenck, Gina Parker and Lee Finley appeared set to replace three incumbents as judges on Texas' highest criminal court Wednesday morning.
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Despite a public campaign that included faith leaders and jurors from the original trial, Texas courts have so far declined to reconsider recanted testimony in Cantu’s case.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is calling for voters to replace three judges on the state Court of Criminal Appeals over his disapproval of a 2021 election fraud ruling.
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Willie Thomas was accused of shooting and killing a Fort Worth club manager in 2009. Newer, more advanced DNA analysis called his conviction into question.
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Speer has been on death row for decades after strangling another inmate at a Texas prison. The victim’s sister and faith leaders have both called on the parole board to halt the execution.
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The lower courts ruled the death row inmate waited too long to challenge the state’s DNA procedures, but the Supreme Court disagreed. Now, he can go to a federal court to make his claim.
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The nation’s high court heard arguments Tuesday on whether Reed can seek DNA testing of crucial evidence in the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County.
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The Tarrant County District Attorney has accused two former prosecutors of lying and perjury in the death penalty case of Paul David Storey, and she's asking the state’s highest criminal court to grant Storey a new punishment trial.
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Mason said she didn’t know she was ineligible to vote when she cast a provisional ballot in 2016, but she was sentenced to five years. Now, the Court of Criminal Appeals says an appellate court that affirmed her conviction must look again at the evidence of Mason’s intent.
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Reed has long professed his innocence in the 1996 murder for which he faces execution. Key evidence in the case has not been tested for DNA, including the ligature used to strangle 19-year-old Stacey Stites.
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The 8-1 decision came Wednesday from the all-Republican Court of Criminal Appeals.
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A Jewish death row inmate who was part of the so-called “Texas 7” gang should get a new capital murder trial because the judge who presided over his case held anti-Semitic views, a state district judge said Monday.