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Judge orders Texas to admit all mentally ill jail detainees to state facilities within 21 days The order came as part of a federal lawsuit over long wait times for Texas detainees who need their mental competency restored in a state hospital before trial.

In 2024, the reporter Maurice Chammah received an email from a defense lawyer whose client, David Wood, was on death row in Texas. Wood had been there for more than 30 years, convicted of a series of murders in El Paso.

The lawyer was writing because Wood had lost all of his appeals and was set to be executed. The lawyer’s plan to stop the ex*****on was to try to prove that his client, one of Texas’ most notorious serial killers, was actually innocent.

The lawyer had uncovered some promising leads, and there was a compelling case to make, but there was also very little time. So Maurice asked to follow the lawyer and his team around in the frenzied last stretch before the ex*****on date. The lawyer had a million reasons to say no. We’re still a bit shocked that he said yes. https://nyti.ms/4eUGrov

BREAKING | Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions have been overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court, which has ordered a new trial. Here’s why: http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/alex-murdaugh-murder-conviction-overturned-new-trial-needed/507-c4807944-a570-4930-901b-88d7aa698b8d?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WFAA

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Betty Broderick, convicted in 1989 for ex-husband's murder, dies in prison Betty Broderick, the former Southern California socialite who killed her ex-husband and new wife in 1989, has died.

Moments after Austin police burst into apartment #821 with a sledgehammer, they realized they had the wrong place.

This wasn’t the home of a woman who had called 911, afraid of her abusive husband. This was the home of a 79-year-old grandmother with two small kids, ages 3 and 5, who were terrified when officers barged into their Southeast Austin apartment around 11 p.m. one night in June 2024.

It was an honest mistake. Software led officers to the wrong door. The elderly woman inside the apartment, a Nigerian immigrant who speaks little English, called her son, Eniekenimi Seifere, who raced home from his late shift as a patient care technician at an assisted living facility.

Seifere’s broken door led him to the city’s broken system for addressing property damage caused by police. Austin’s Law Department categorically refuses to pay for such damage to buildings — even when officers kick in the wrong door, break an innocent neighbor’s fence or leave a victim without a door that locks.

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