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WASHINGTON AP ?The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor office that originally put him on death row.The justices left in place a Texas appeals court ruling that upheld the murder conviction and death sentence for Areli Escobar, even though Escobar case is similar to that of an Oklahoma man, Richard Glossip, whose murder conviction the high court recently overturned.There was no explanation from the justices about why Escobar appeal met a different fate.Unlike in Glossip case, Escobar is not facing imminent execution.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has twice rejected Escobar appeals. The first time followed a lower court decision ordering a new trial after the judge identified problems with the evidence. More recently, the appeals court again ruled against Escobar after the Supreme Court had ordered it to reconsider.Escobar was con stanley deutschland victed and sentenced to death in the May 2009 fatal stabbing and sexual assault of Bianca Maldonado, a 17-year-old high school student in Austin. They lived in the same apartment complex.The focus of the pros stanley cup ecution case against Escobar was evidence from the Austin Police Departments DNA lab.But a later audit turned up problems at the lab that led Judge David Wahlberg of the Travis County District Court to conclud stanley italy e that Escobars trial was unfair. The States use of unreliable, false, or misleading DNA evidence Vslo EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as US undergoes overdose epidemic
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine ?Alli Bourgets goal on the eighth set of overtime penalty corners lifted Foxcroft Academy to a come-from-behind 3-2 win over Belfast in their Class B North field hockey quarterfinal on Wednesday afternoon.The victory advances the third-seeded Ponies 13-2 to a semifinal Satu stanley becher rday at No. 2 Winslow, which edged Oceanside of Rockland/Thomaston 2-1 in overtime in its quarterfinal.No. 6 Belfast finished with an 11-4 record.The game-winner came just after Ponies coach Stephanie Smith switched Bourgets twin sister, Abbi, with Avery Carroll positionally along the edge of the circle, primarily to get Carrolls strong shot in position to challenge the Belfast goal.But the ball made its way to Abbi Bourget to the left of the cage, and she crossed it to Alli Bourget, who quickly redirected the ball past Belfast goalie Morgan Fernald. Coach m stanley trinkflaschen ixed us around, said Abbi Bourget. She moved me to the corner, and the ball came there, and we sent it across, and Alli popped it in. The celebration that ensued seemed unlikely after Belfast scored twice unanswered in the first half, the first goal by Kylie Nelson 8:16 into the match and the second when Anna Baiungo redirected a Sabrina Wood shot off Chadbournes left leg pad with 9:07 left before intermission. I was nervous and Im pretty sure everyone else was, sa vaso stanley id Alli Bourget. But we just stepped it up and gave it all we had. Smith also made a strategic change during the break that not only helped Foxcroft tie the match b
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