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Roderick Newton's Execution Date Expected to Be Withdrawn

By Steve Hall

"Man convicted in Dallas County slaying expected to get reprieve from execution," is Michael Graczyk's AP report via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.A convicted killer scheduled for execution this week for an abduction and slaying a decade ago will likely get a reprieve now that Dallas County prosecutors have turned over misplaced evidence to defense attorneys.Attorneys for Death Row inmate Roderick Newton said the first of three statements given to detectives by a co-defendant who testified against Newton was improperly withheld from his trial lawyers. It could have been used to discredit the co-defendant?s testimony, but defense attorneys didn?t know it existed.The claim was among several appeals issues that Newton?s attorneys filed with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals when they asked the court to block the lethal injection set for Thursday...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).