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Roderick Newton Conviction Overturned

By Steve Hall

AP reports the breaking news, "Dallas death penalty case thrown out by court."  It's by Michael Graczyk, via the Houston Chronicle. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has thrown out the conviction of a man sent to death row for the the abduction, robbery and fatal shooting of a Dallas man more than 11 years ago. The state's highest criminal court said Wednesday it agreed with a Dallas judge who found prosecutors at the 2000 trial of 32-year-old Roderick Newton improperly withheld evidence that could vindicate him. Newton was condemned for the 1999 death of 20-year-old Jesus Montoya, of Dallas. His body was found in a vacant lot in Mesquite. Newton was scheduled to die last year. His punishment was stopped after prosecutors gave Newton's lawyers a police questionnaire uncovered in a review of the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).