A man convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago faces execution on Wednesday.
Wesley Ruiz, 43, is set to receive a lethal injection for the March 2007 killing of Dallas Police Senior Corporal Mark Nix.
The 33-year-old officer was a U.S. Navy veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He'd been on the Dallas force for nearly seven years and was engaged to be married when he was killed. In court documents filed late Tuesday with the Supreme Court, the Texas Attorney General's Office said Ruiz's claim of juror bias has no merit because a review conducted last week by Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot of the allegations found no such bias. One of the jurors accused of bias by Ruiz's attorneys told Creuzot that,"I was not nor am not bias to anyone or any race," according to the court filing.
Ruiz's attorneys have previously argued unsuccessfully that an expert witness for the prosecution falsely testified at Ruiz's 2008 trial about whether he would be a future danger. Defense attorneys alleged prosecutors knew about the false testimony and remained silent. In his ruling, Godbey said the expert testimony"was quite possibly harmless" and even if the testimony was corrected, it would not have changed the jury's decision to sentence Ruiz to death.
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Man to be executed Wednesday for fatally shooting Dallas police Officer Mark Nix in 2007A man convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer in 2007 is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday in Huntsville. Wesley Lynn Ruiz, 43, was...
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