Earlier this week, a Court of Appeals panel declined to review the case of a man who was sentenced to life for the 2011 murder of his girlfriend. Melvin “Roc” Smith, 30, was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury in October 2012. Smith was also convicted of other…
In February of 2012, Gregorio Luna Luna of Pasco was convicted of aggravated first-degree murder in the death of Griselda Ocampo Meza, the mother of Luna Luna’s child. According to a news article at the Tri-City Herald, the defendant was awaiting deportation in 2010 and in federal custody when he…
In January of 2013, 23-year-old Myles Webster was convicted of attempted murder in the March 2012 shooting of Manchester Police Officer Dan Doherty. Webster allegedly shot Doherty seven times at near point-blank range as Doherty pursued Webster in a foot chase. Webster was sentenced to 60 years to life behind…
In the state of Texas, an individual may be sentenced to life in prison for a third felony DWI conviction. Recently, a 44-year-old Texas man may have received a new lease on life, when an appeals court overturned a DWI conviction from an incident that occurred in 2012. According to…
In October of last year, Hugo Fluellen, a former Gilmer, TX pastor was sentenced to six life terms for sex crimes that occurred over a period of about nine years, according to a CBS news report. Fluellen appealed his conviction, however it was upheld by the Sixth Court of Appeals…
Approximately three weeks ago the conviction of Marvin Blades, Jr., a former Tulsa police officer, for armed robbery was affirmed by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, according to a news article at Tulsa World. Blades, who is 39 years old, was found guilty of pulling over Hispanic individuals while…
In Booneville, MS in 2010, then 48-year-old Rebecca Jones allegedly killed her mother by shooting her twice, once in the arm, and once in the stomach. Jones maintains that her mother, Jane Jones, and herself were involved in a struggle over the gun when it fired accidentally. Rebecca Jones went…
Last year, 48-year-old Winfred Ottley won an appeal of his conviction for rape and aggravated child molestation with the Georgia Court of Appeals, who overturned his conviction. At that time, he had to make a decision whether to face trial again and fight for his innocence, or plead guilty. Considering…
In May of 2013, 35-year-old Moses Grayson was found guilty in a Stoddard County courtroom of first-degree burglary, and forcible sodomy. According to news reports, it took the jury just over an hour to reach the guilty verdicts. Grayson is accused of entering the victim’s Dexter home and forcibly raping…
Curtis Flowers, a black man in Mississippi who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1997 for the 1996 killings of four individuals, currently sits on death row and has been tried six times for the slayings, which took place at a furniture store where the defendant had been fired…