A Prosecutor’s Change of Heart in a Capital Case at the Supreme Court

Nov 14, 2023
1 min read

Updated: Nov 18, 2023

by Adam Liptak

Published on October 24, 2022

Preview: A state judge in Texas ruled that Areli Escobar, a death row inmate there, had been convicted based on junk science produced by a police DNA lab so riddled with problems that it had to be shut down.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/us/texas-death-penalty-supreme-court.html

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