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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Death penalty reversal

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit reversed the death penalty conviction of a former sex worker accused of murder. The court wrote, “There is a reason Brittany Marlow Holberg has been on death row for over 27 years. The State denied her right to due process by keeping from the jury evidence favorable to the Defendant, and this suppression prejudiced her case.”

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Civil Rights, Criminal

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