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CCA Orders New Sentencing Trial in Lucero

By Steve Hall

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Michael Graczyk's AP report, "Condemned killer of 3 wins new sentencing trial," is via the Houston Chronicle.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out on Wednesday the death sentence of an Amarillo man convicted of killing three neighbors seven years ago.The state's highest criminal court agreed with attorneys for Jimmie Lucero, 52, that his trial lawyers did a poor job of investigating his background and presenting mitigating evidence to a jury that decided in 2005 that he should die.The court sent the case back to his trial court in Amarillo for a new sentencing trial.And:Appeals attorneys argued that lawyers ignored signs of Lucero's mental illness, that he was incapable of helping out in his own defense and that he should have been ruled incompetent to stand trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 16, 2010 (boomark / email).

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