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Life Sentence in Harris County Death Penalty Trial

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Mike Tolson reports, "Quintero sentencing baffling to many," in today's Houston Chronicle.It sounded like a foolproof recipe for a death sentence: an admired and respected police officer shot in the back by an illegal immigrant whose history included criminal convictions for drunken driving and indecency with a child as well as deportation. But a Harris County jury decided otherwise, shocking most people who paid even the slightest attention to a trial in which the shooting itself was never an issue and the defendant's character offered little to praise. Danalynn Recer, one of the attorneys for Juan Quintero, said the lesson to take from the jury's decision to give him life without parole instead of death is that the people of Harris County are far from the bloodthirsty yahoos of national caricature...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).