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New Trial Ordered in Controversial New Orleans Death Case

By Steve Hall

"Judge grants Michael Anderson new trial in 2006 Central City massacre case," is the title of Gwen Filosa's post at the New Orleans Times-Picayune.An Orleans Parish Criminal District Court judge today granted a new trial for Michael Anderson in the 2006 Central City massacre that left five teenagers dead, agreeing with the defense team that prosecutors violated the rules at his August trial that ended with a jury condemning Anderson to death row."The ends of justice require that Michael Anderson receive a new trial," Judge Lynda Van Davis wrote, in a seven-page ruling that found prosecutors' withholding of a videotaped interview with the sole eyewitness, and a jailhouse informant's plea deal, could have blindsided his defense attorneys...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).