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  2. Texas Mother on Death Row 'Actually Innocent' in Daughter's ...

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    The Oct. 16 document was made public this week via the Innocence Project, which has taken on Lucio's case. Related: She Was Set to Be Executed in Daughter's Death. Now Prosecutors and Judge Say It ...

  3. Mom Facing Execution For Tragic Passing Of 2YO Daughter ... - AOL

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    Image credits: Ilana Panich-Linsman / Innocence Project Evidence against the mother relied on the state of her daughter’s body, which exhibited signs of trauma caused by a physical altercation ...

  4. Roger Keith Coleman - Wikipedia

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    Roger Keith Coleman (November 1, 1958 – May 20, 1992) was an American convicted murderer and rapist who was executed on May 20, 1992, for the rape and murder of his 19-year-old sister-in-law, Wanda Faye McCoy, at her home in Grundy, Virginia on the night of March 10, 1981. A lifelong resident of Grundy, Coleman had worked as a coal miner.

  5. Presumption of innocence - Wikipedia

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    The presumption of innocence is a legal principle that every person accused of any crime is considered innocent until proven guilty. Under the presumption of innocence, the legal burden of proof is thus on the prosecution , which must present compelling evidence to the trier of fact (a judge or a jury ).

  6. Coffin v. United States - Wikipedia

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    It is the duty of the judge, in all jurisdictions, when requested, and in some when not requested, to explain the presumption of innocence to the jury in his charge. The usual formula in which this doctrine is expressed is that every man is presumed to be innocent until his guilt is proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Court membership; Chief Justice

  7. Texas committee approves subpoena for death row inmate ahead ...

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    Advocates of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson are pleading for the state to halt its plans to execute him Thursday for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter – a crime Roberson says he did ...

  8. Robert Roberson case - Wikipedia

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    Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003. He has lost his appeals since. [1] [2]

  9. Actual innocence - Wikipedia

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    Schlup also argued that he was actually innocent—not because that was a substantive ground for relief, but because his actual innocence excused his failure to raise his ineffective-counsel and prosecutorial-nondisclosure claims in his state court pleadings and in his first federal habeas petition.