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Podcast: The Dallas Morning News
Episode: Court records detail behind-the-scenes fight over testimony by death row’s Robert Roberson ... and more news
Description: Texas lawmakers provided a behind-the-scenes look at efforts to scuttle in-person testimony from death row’s Robert Roberson, either at the Capitol or at the inmate’s prison. In the end lawmakers were told Roberson would not be permitted to testify in “any form of hearing” before a House committee examining the inmate’s case. In a brief filed with the Texas Supreme Court, Reps. Joe Moody, Democrat from El Paso, and Jeff Leach, Republican from Allen, detailed their battle with the attorney general’s office and unnamed executive branch officials to secure public testimony from Roberson; In other news, Plano...