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Texas Prisoner Wins Reprieve from Supreme Court

HeadlineJun 04, 2002

A Texan prisoner who was facing a death sentence after his lawyer slept through parts of his murder trial has won a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court. America’s top court refused to intervene in the case, upholding an appeals court ruling that Calvin Burdine deserved a new trial.

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