The Supreme Court has revived claims by a Texas inmate who has the rare support of the state prosecutor’s office that put him on death row.
FILE - Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 16, 2022. In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didnt commit. The Supreme Court is being asked, again, to put an end to the practice.on Monday revived claims by a Texas inmate who has the rare support of the state prosecutor's office that put him on death row.
The focus of the prosecution case against Escobar was evidence from the Austin Police Department's DNA lab. “The State’s use of unreliable, false, or misleading DNA evidence to secure conviction violated fundamental concepts of justice,” Wahlberg wrote., Travis County prosecutors no longer were defending the conviction. Voters had elected a new district attorney, Jose Garza, who ran on a promise to hold police accountable in Austin, the state capital and county seat.
In its filing with the Supreme Court, Garza's office wrote that prosecutors have a duty to see justice done and that the appeals court “undermined the District Attorney’s historical role in the criminal justice system.”
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