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Texas Crime Stories takes you back to the brazen prison escape almost 23 years ago that led to the death of an Irving police officer and what one of the remaining members of the Texas 7 has to say now as he sits on death row.
A Jewish death-row inmate who was part of a gang of prisoners who fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after they had escaped should have his conviction overturned and get a new trial because the judge who presided over his case “harbored antisemitic bias," according to a court ruling.
Randy Halprin, a Jewish member of the "Texas 7," argues that the judge who convicted and sentenced him had an antisemitic bias that infringed on his right to an impartial trial.
HOUSTON (AP) A Jewish death row inmate who was part of a gang of prisoners who fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after they had escaped should have his conviction overturned and get a new trial because the judge who presided over his case “harbored antisemitic bias," according to a court ruling.