New Trial Granted for Texas Death-Sentenced Prisoner Because …
2 days ago · Of the seven escaped prisoners, one died by suicide before arrest, four have been executed, and two—Mr. Halprin and Patrick Murphy—remain on death row. “Shortly after Mr. Halprin and six other men escaped from prison in 2000, Texas prison officials concluded that Mr. Halprin was the least likely party to be involved in violence.
Man on Texas' death row gets new trial over judge's antisemitic …
6 days ago · News; Man on Texas' death row gets new trial over judge's antisemitic bias. ... 2024, 10:05 a.m. Death row inmate Randy Halprin, then 26, sits in a visitation cell at the Polunsky Unit in ...
Court orders new trial for Texas 7 member Randy Halprin - The Texas …
Nov 7, 2024 · Texas’ highest criminal court orders new trial for death row inmate over judge's alleged antisemitic bias. Randy Halprin was a member of a gang of prisoners known as the “Texas 7” who ...
Texas Jewish Death Row Inmate Gets New Trial Because Judge …
6 days ago · In a landmark decision on Wednesday, a Texas appeals court ordered a new trial for Randy Halprin, a Jewish death row inmate, citing antisemitic bias by the judge who oversaw his original case ...
Texas Court Orders New Trial For Death Row Inmate Over …
A Texas death row inmate was granted a new trial on Wednesday due to the sentencing judge's anti-Semitic bias against him. Randy Halprin, who was part of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners ...
Jewish death row inmate granted new trial after judge's …
5 days ago · Randy Halprin, a 47-year-old Jewish man on death row in Texas, has won the right to a new trial after his lawyers found that the judge who previously sentenced him had a history of making ...
Appeals court orders new trial for man on Texas' death row over …
Nov 7, 2024 · SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after escaping — because of antisemitic bias by the judge who presided over his case. Lawyers for Randy Halprin have contended that former Judge Vickers ...
New trial granted for one of the last living members of the Texas 7
Nov 6, 2024 · The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted a new trial for one of the last living members of the Texas 7. Randy Halprin was part of a group of escaped prisoners who broke out of the Connally Unit, a Texas prison, in 2000 and while on the run, fatally shot police officer Aubrey Hawkins. Halprin was sentenced to death under Texas' "law of ...
Appeals Court Orders New Trial for Man on Texas' Death Row …
Nov 7, 2024 · Brett Coomer. FILE - Death row inmate Randy Halprin, then 26, sits in a visitation cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, Dec. 3, 2003.
Appeals court orders new trial for man on Texas’ death row over …
FILE - Randy Halprin, who was part of the so-called "Texas 7" gang who escaped from prison in 2000 and was convicted in the murder of an Irving police officer, enters the 283rd Judicial District ...