An Oklahoma appeals court overturned a murder conviction Thursday based on evidence that the judge was having a sexual relationship with one of the prosecutors in the case. Robert Leon Hashagen III was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced in February 2021 for death of 94-year-old gardener and bird-watcher Evelyn Goodall, according to The Oklahoman. Goodall died from blunt force trauma two days after being brutally beaten. She called 911, telling a dispatcher, “Hurry, hurry. I’m dying,”
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A man who severely beat a 94-year-old woman to death while on meth has had his murder conviction overturned after a sexual relationship between the presiding judge and prosecutor surfaced,
The murder of a 94-year-old woman a decade ago is getting some new attention this week after the Court of Criminal Appeals threw out the conviction of Robert Hashagen.