New trial ordered for Texas death row inmate due to judge's antisemitic bias
SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after escaping — because of antisemitic bias by the judge who presided ...
Appeals court orders new trial for man on Texas' death row over judge's antisemitic bias
A Texas appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge in his case
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Man on Texas' death row gets new trial over judge's antisemitic bias
A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge who presided over his case. Lawyers for Randy Halprin have contended that former Judge Vickers Cunningham in Dallas used racial slurs and antisemitic language to refer to him and some of his co-defendants.
Texas Court Orders New Trial For Death Row Inmate Over Judge's Anti-Semitic Bias
Randy Halprin was part of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners. Ha had already won a reprieve from the death penalty in 2019 for the same reason
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I’m not going to rush justice in a case like this,” U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow said at a hearing Tuesday.
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