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New date set for Coble punishment trial

By Kristin Houle

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According to the Waco Tribune-Herald (January 10, 2008), Judge Matt Johnson of Waco?s 54th State District Court has set August 4 as the date to begin jury selection for a new sentencing hearing for Billie Wayne Coble. Coble's death sentence was overturned last year by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the statute in effect in Texas at the time of Coble's conviction (1990) had prevented the jury from fully considering the mitigating evidence presented by his trial attorneys. Coble was convicted in the August 1989 shooting deaths of his estranged wife?s parents, Robert and Zelda Vicha, of Axtell, and her brother, Waco police Sgt. Bobby Vicha. The McLennan County District Attorney's office has announced that it again will seek the death penalty for the now 59-year-old Coble...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prevention Not Punishment on January 10, 2008 (boomark / email).

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