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November 6, 2014

Texas Prisoner's Death Sentence Struck Down over Withheld Evidence 
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The death sentence of a Texas prisoner has been overturned after
prosecutors withheld evidence that could have aided his defense. Alfred
Dewayne Brown was convicted in 2005 for the murder of a Houston police
officer in a robbery gone wrong. Brown has always maintained his
innocence. His death sentence was nixed after lawyers found records of a
phone call he had said he made from his girlfriend's apartment at the
time of the murder. Prosecutors say the phone record was withheld by
accident, not intentionally. The case now goes to a lower court, but
it's unclear if prosecutors will retry it.

 

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