Torres v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder in the course of a burglary and sentenced to life imprisonment. Appellant subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief, alleging that he was entitled to a new trial based on newly discovered evidence. Specifically, Appellant alleged that Tracy Sailor, one of the people who was with Appellant at the time of the murder, had made statements indicating that Sailor killed the victim and that Sailor's statements were both newly discovered evidence that Sailor was the victim's killer and a recantation of Sailor's trial testimony that Appellant killed the victim. The postconviction court denied Appellant a new trial. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the postconviction court did not abuse its discretion by denying Appellant a new trial.
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