STORY: "Court of Criminal Appeals to review Hannah Overton conviction," published by KRISTV on October 31, 2013.
GIST: "The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to review two motions related to Hannah Overton's conviction for the murder of her four-year-old foster son.A jury sentenced Overton to life in prison in September 2007 after Andrew Burd died from a sodium overdose. Her initial appeal was denied. Now the Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to review defense claims that she received ineffective counsel at her trial and that prosecutors failed to present evidence that could have proved her innocence. The written arguments are due by January 22."
The entire story can be found at: GIST: "The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to review two motions related to Hannah Overton's conviction for the murder of her four-year-old foster son.A jury sentenced Overton to life in prison in September 2007 after Andrew Burd died from a sodium overdose. Her initial appeal was denied. Now the Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to review defense claims that she received ineffective counsel at her trial and that prosecutors failed to present evidence that could have proved her innocence. The written arguments are due by January 22."
http://www.kristv.com/news/court-of-criminal-appeals-to-review-hannah-overton-conviction/#_
From a previous post of this Blog: "At Overton's original trial in 2007, the prosecution portrayed her as a mother who had lost control. Frustrated with a naughty child, prosecutors said, she tried to punish him with seasoning mixed in water. The defense presented the jury with a medical mystery. They suggested that Andrew might have had pica, an eating disorder characterized by an obsessive appetite and that Andrew accidentally poisoned himself by consuming a fatal amount of sodium."
http://smithforensic.blogspot.ca/2012/09/hannah-overton-texas-murder-or-medical.html
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