The Supreme Court threw out a Texas appeals court ruling that refused to grant the inmate, Areli Escobar, a new trial. The state appeals court had overruled a lower court judge who documented the flaws in the forensic evidence used to convict Escobar.
on Monday revived claims by a Texas inmate who has the rare support of the state prosecutor’s office that put him on death row.
The focus of the prosecution case against Escobar was evidence from the Austin Police Department’s DNA lab. “The State’s use of unreliable, false, or misleading DNA evidence to secure conviction violated fundamental concepts of justice,” Wahlberg wrote., Travis County prosecutors no longer were defending the conviction. Voters had elected a new district attorney, Jose Garza, who ran on a promise to hold police accountable in Austin, the state capital and county seat.
In its filing with the Supreme Court, Garza’s office wrote that prosecutors have a duty to see justice done and that the appeals court “undermined the District Attorney’s historical role in the criminal justice system.”
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