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Jun 23, 2024 · Before a fourth trial in 1999, the state offered Cook a “no contest” plea deal for murder. He was sentenced to 20 years and given credit for time served, leading to his release. However, his...
Days before Cook was set to face a fourth trial, Smith County prosecutors offered him a no-contest plea deal that allowed him to be released from prison. He remained guilty in the eyes of the...
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Jun 21, 2024 · EAST TEXAS – Kerry Max Cook is innocent of the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found, citing stunning allegations of prosecutorial misconduct that led to...
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Meanwhile, Dobbs proposed trying to work out a no-contest plea deal, offering first a forty-year sentence, then a deal where the judge could sentence him to less. Cook refused both.
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Before a fourth trial in 1999, the state offered Cook a “no contest” plea deal for murder. He was sentenced to 20 years and given credit for time served, leading to his release. However,...
Jun 28, 2024 · Prosecutors not only concealed they had given their star witness a plea deal (for two years instead of life), but orchestrated his entire testimony, showing him pictures of the crime scene and giving him details about the investigation. “I lied on [Cook] to save myself,” he later admitted in court.
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Jun 17, 2004 · Cook took the no contest plea. Two months after Cook took the no contest plea and 22 years after the murder, the results came out of a DNA analysis of a semen stain found on the victim's...
