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3 days ago · The agreement sat for 16 months, waiting for a signature from a judge. That was until last Friday when Cameron County 138th District Court Judge Arturo Nelson asked the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals to overturn Lucio’s murder conviction and death sentence. Nelson issued the order two days after being assigned to the case.
4 days ago · Today, attorneys for Melissa Lucio issued the following statement in response to Judge Arturo Nelson’s recommendations that Ms. Lucio’s conviction and death sentenced be overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: On April 12, 2024, the Honorable Judge Arturo Nelson entered findings of fact and conclusions of law recommending that ...
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A Texas judge has ruled that death row inmate Melissa Lucio’s conviction be overturned, finding prosecutors withheld evidence withheld that could have prevented her from being found guilty in ...
A district judge who previously presided over a woman’s capital murder case recommended last week that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturn Melissa Lucio's 2008 conviction after a...
3 days ago · Decades after a jury sentenced Lucio to death for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, the Cameron County district attorney and Lucio’s legal team cosigned court filings that found key ...
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio (born June 18, 1969) is the first woman of Hispanic descent to be sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Texas.She was convicted of capital murder after the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah, who was found to have scattered bruising in various stages of healing, as well as injuries to her head and contusions of the kidneys, lungs and spinal cord.
4 days ago · A judge on Friday signed off on an agreed order between the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office and appellate attorneys for Melissa Lucio that she did not have access to evidence that would have corroborated her story that her 2-year-old daughter died from a fall, not child abuse.
