US EditionSupreme Court rejects appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar
- The Supreme Court rejected Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar's appeal regarding flawed DNA evidence used in his 2009 murder conviction of Bianca Maldonado, stating that no explanation was given for the different outcome compared to another case.
- Prosecutors, including County District Attorney Jose Garza, supported Escobar's claim that the evidence was problematic, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld his conviction twice despite this concession.
- In a lower court's ruling, issues with the evidence had been acknowledged, but subsequent reviews by the appeals court disagreed, asserting that the outcome likely would not have changed with accurate evidence.
- Escobar's case is under scrutiny, as it raises questions about the use of unreliable evidence, similar to the case of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, whose conviction the Supreme Court overturned due to prosecutorial errors.
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The Supreme Court rejects a Texas death row inmate's appeal
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor’s office that originally put him on death row.
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