Woman on death row for 27 years has conviction overturned

Woman on death row for nearly three decades has conviction overturned after shocking new information is revealed
On 27 March 1998, Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the robbery, torture and murder of 80-year-old Texas-local, A. B. Towery Sr. This week, however, after almost three decades on death row, the convicted killer has had her lethal sentence overturned in a shock twist of fate.
Woman who's been on death row for 27 years has conviction quashed after new information
Bombshell new evidence has given Brittany Holberg, 52, a reprieve - a case which a judge in Texas, US, says serves as a reminder capital punishment is still a "work in progress"
Federal appeals court reverses conviction of Texas woman on death row after 27 years
The federal appeals court said the prosecution failed to disclose that a key trial witness was a paid informant.
Federal appellate court vacates Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction
State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her being sentenced to death, a federal appellate court panel ruled Friday.
Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate’s conviction
A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.
Federal appeals court tosses conviction of woman who has spent 27 years on death row
A federal appeals court has erased the capital murder conviction of a Texas woman who has spent the past 27 years on death row, saying her trial was tainted because of information prosecutors hid.
Court reverses, vacates Holberg conviction, death sentence in 1996 Towery murder
More than 27 years after being sentenced to death for capital murder in the 1996 death of 80-year-old A.B. Towery, Sr., the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals announced it has reversed
Woman who’s been on death row for 27 years has conviction overturned as new information emerges
Brittany Holberg, 52, has spent more than a quarter of a century on death row before a federal appeals court tossed out her murder conviction.
Brittany Holberg, inmate on Texas death row for 27 years, has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court
A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.
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Texas woman on death row for 27 years has conviction tossed after staggering admission about key witness
Brittany Holberg, 52, was sentenced to death for the horrific slaying of A.B. Towery on November 13, 1996. She was convicted for capital murder in the course of committing or attempting to ...
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Fifth Circuit Overturns Death Sentence in Brittany Holberg Case Due to Brady Violations
In a critical ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the conviction and death sentence of Brittany Marlowe ...