Death row inmate Robert Roberson could testify at the state Capitol Friday. A House committee issued a subpoena to Roberson Tuesday for his testimony in a...
FILE - Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024. Roberson was sentenced to the death penalty for the 2003 death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki. His case drew intense attention as his execution date neared because of its reliance on what a bipartisan group of lawmakers criticized as “junk science.”Roberson’s attorney Gretchen Sween said in a statement he is “eager to testify and grateful for the chance to be heard.
Roberson’s case became a political fight between the House committee and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton’s office released a“Robert’s testimony will shed important light on some of the problems with our ‘junk science writ’ process, a legal procedure Texas lawmakers expected to provide reconsideration in cases like this one,” Moody and Leach said in an email statement.
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