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The committee also heard from Melvin Bledsoe, whose son faces capital-murder charges for allegedly killing a military recruiter and wounding another in a June 2009 shooting in Little Rock, Ark.
Emotions Run High at Hearing Devlin Barrett 2011
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Last year, New York federal prosecutors dropped capital-murder charges against an alleged MS-13 member after his attorneys argued misdeeds by Mr. Pineda had tainted the case.
Rogue Informants Imperil Massive U.S. Gang Bust Justin Scheck 2011
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Last year, New York federal prosecutors dropped capital-murder charges against an alleged MS-13 member after his attorneys argued misdeeds by Mr. Pineda had tainted the case.
Rogue Informants Imperil Massive U.S. Gang Bust Justin Scheck 2011
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Pete Marovich/Zuma Press Another witness, Melvin Bledsoe, whose son faces capital-murder charges for allegedly killing a military recruiter and wounding another in a June 2009 shooting in Little Rock, Ark., said his son was a happy teenager who changed after he went to college and converted.
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The law also allows future capital-murder defendants to claim racial bias.
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Bill Hill, got convictions in 55% of capital-murder cases during a comparable period of time.
The Exonerator 2008
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As McKinney's capital-murder trial began, the courtroom drama became almost as emotionally charged as the hate crime that had made Matthew Shepard a martyr to America's gay-rights movement.
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According to court data, 61% of capital-murder cases his office has handled so far have resulted in convictions; the previous district attorney,
The Exonerator 2008
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And in my state of Texas, in order to be put to death -- it's a capital-murder state, you have to be convicted of two offenses.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: George W. Bush Holds News Conference in Canton, Ohio - June 16, 2000 2000
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The jury, which is considering the capital-murder case against one of the intruders, Joshua Komisarjevsky, had already been told that it was not a dream and that Mr. Komisarjevsky had attacked Dr. Petit as he slept with a baseball bat and that "the girls" would die that morning.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GLABERSON 2011
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