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Miller-El Case Ends With Plea Agreement

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There is more than a little irony in the fact that the Thomas Miller-El case settled with a plea agreement on the same day that the Supreme Court revisited race and the death penalty in Snyder v. Louisiana and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals heard another Texas case with deep racial undertones, that of Rodney Reed. The Miller-El case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court twice, leading to a sharp rebuke on Texas' review of this death penalty case, first in Miller-El v.Cockrell, then in Miller-El v. Dretke. Today's Dallas Morning News reports, " Death penalty case that highlighted jury bias ends in plea deal."One of Dallas County's most notorious death penalty cases ended quietly Wednesday after more than two decades when Thomas Joe Miller-El pleaded guilty to capital murder and aggravated robbery in a deal that spares his life but virtually assures that he will die in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).