{"id":7959,"date":"2024-04-17T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/state-district-judge-recommends-overturning-melissa-lucios-death-sentence\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:09:22","slug":"state-district-judge-recommends-overturning-melissa-lucios-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/state-district-judge-recommends-overturning-melissa-lucios-death-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"State district judge recommends overturning Melissa Lucio\u2019s death sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A district judge who previously presided over a woman\u2019s capital murder case recommended last week that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturn Melissa Lucio&#8217;s 2008 conviction after a district attorney\u2019s office admitted that prosecutors withheld evidence from her defense. Decades after a jury sentenced Lucio to death for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, the Cameron County district attorney and Lucio\u2019s legal team cosigned court filings that found key evidence, which included interviews with Lucio\u2019s other children, was suppressed by prosecutors at the time of the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A district judge who previously presided over a woman\u2019s capital murder case recommended last week that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturn Melissa Lucio&#8217;s 2008 conviction after a district attorney\u2019s office admitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}