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Former Death Row Inmate Agrees to Life Without Parole (mysanantonio.com)

Case: Estrada v. The State of Texas
Affiliate: ACLU of Texas
April 22, 2011 12:00 am
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A former youth pastor who spent three years on death row for the murder of his pregnant teen girlfriend was given a new sentence Thursday: life in prison without parole. In exchange for prosecutors no longer seeking the death penalty, Adrian Estrada, 27, agreed to forgo all rights to appeal the case.

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Estrada v. The State of Texas

Jurors in Estrada's 2007 sentencing trial were incorrectly told by a State's prison expert that if Estrada were given a sentence of life without parole instead of the death penalty, he could be eligible for a classification level that would allow him to leave the prison grounds after 10 years of imprisonment. Two juror notes strongly suggested that the expert's false testimony led to their decision to sentence Estrada to death. Prosecutors' use of false and misleading evidence is a leading cause of wrongful death sentences in Texas and nationwide.

Source: American Civil Liberties Union

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