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Fifth Circuit Overturns Tyrone Williams' Sentence

By Steve Hall

The Fifth Circuit ruling in USA v. Williams is in Adobe .pdf format."Trucker will get new sentence in smuggling case," is the title of Mike Tolson's report in the Houston Chronicle.A truck driver whose actions led to the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants in South Texas in 2003 will return to federal court for a new sentence after a federal appeals court tossed out his life sentence Thursday.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the life-without-parole sentence given to Tyrone Williams by a Houston jury following his capital transporting conviction in January 2007. A three-judge panel ruled that the government's case against Williams failed to establish that he had committed an "act of violence" as required by federal law and sent it back to U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).