Brittany Holberg, inmate on Texas death row for 27 years, has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court
A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.
Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate’s conviction
Brittany Marlowe Holberg was convicted in 1998 of robbing and murdering an 80-year-old man in his Amarillo home.
Texas woman on death row for 27 years has conviction tossed after staggering admission about key witness
Brittany Holberg, 52, was convicted and sentenced to death for capital murder after she brutally attacked 80-year-old A.B.
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