Texas lawmakers are demanding the testimony of a death row inmate about a law allowing prisoners to challenge convictions based on new scientific evidence.
Bipartisan Texas lawmakers issued a new subpoena for death row inmate Robert Roberson's testimony about the state's junk science law. A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers announced Tuesday they had issued a new subpoena that would require the state's prison system to allow death row inmate Robert Roberson to testify in person this week about the state's junk science law. An earlier subpoena ended up delaying Roberson's Oct. 17 execution, which had been set to be the first in the U.S.
tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. The House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence announced it had issued last week and served on Monday a subpoena compelling Roberson to appear before it at a meeting in Austin on Friday. The committee has argued it needs to hear from Roberson about whether a 2013 law created to allow prisoners to challenge their convictions based on new scientific evidence was ignored in his case. Ken Paxton says the autopsy report proves Roberson was convicted of beating his child and leaving her with extensive head wounds, and the jury did not convict him on the basis of 'shaken baby syndrome.' '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,' committee chair and state Rep. Joe Moody, a Democrat, and committee member and state Rep. Jeff Leach, a Republican, said in a statement. Amanda Hernandez, a department spokesperson, said in an email that her agency 'doesn't have a comment at this time.' 'I profoundly hope that his ability to appear is not obstructed by those who, for whatever reason, do not want the lawmakers and the public to hear from him directly about his experience trying to communicate his innocence,' attorney Gretchen Sween said in a statement. Roberson had been set to appear before the committee on Oct. 21 under the first subpoen
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