California prison doctors get millions while not working

California prison doctors barred from treating patients because they were suspected of malpractice received nearly $9 million in pay for doing no work or only menial chores like sorting the mail, state records show.

At least 30 physicians and mental health professionals collected an estimated $8.7 million since 2006 as they went through a lengthy appeals process to determine whether they should be fired or reinstated, the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/vOJLlY ) reported Monday. The newspaper cited records from a court-ordered receiver now in charge of the state prison system.

Doctors who were alleged by colleagues to have committed negligence or misconduct — in some cases involving patient deaths — received their full six-figure salaries, even though they were not allowed to treat prisoners. Some did menial work.

“Obviously the system is broken,” said Dr. Radu Mischiu, a psychiatrist who allegedly failed to keep notes on patient interviews. “You put people on the sidelines, but then you have to pay them millions. It’s ridiculous.”

Mischiu, who currently is on disability leave with a bad back, has not treated an inmate since February 2006. At one point, he sorted inmate mail at Solano state prison in Vacaville while earning his full salary of $268,524 a year. He also reviewed medical charts to make sure other doctors have made proper notes — something he himself allegedly had failed to do.

Mischiu eventually was fired, but the State Personnel Board, which reviews disciplinary cases involving civil servants, ordered him rehired with back pay two years ago.

Regarding his poor record-keeping, the board noted Mischiu’s huge caseload. He and another psychiatrist had been responsible for up to 1,600 mentally ill inmates at times.

Mischiu said prison officials still refused to allow him near patients.

A federal court placed the state’s prison health care system in receivership in 2005 after ruling that it was so poor as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment. The receiver oversees more than 7,000 doctors, nurses and other medical staff positions.

The payment records provided to the Times were partial because of poor accounting and the figure could be higher, said Nancy Kincaid, spokeswoman for the receiver, California Correctional Health Care Services.

“The whole reason this place is in receivership is that it was so badly broken, and that includes the record-keeping,” Kincaid said.

Currently, only two doctors barred from patients are being paid.

Via The Mercury News

We are willing to sacrifice ourselves to change our conditions

by Mutope Duguma, s/n James Crawford

this story originally published in the SF BayView

Written Nov. 16, 2011 – I probably need to give you some insight as to who and what you’re dealing with if you don’t already know. These people are professional liars and the mere dialogue between [a prisoner advocate] and Mrs. Terry Thornton [spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR)] should tell you that this lady is wicked. She is the type of person who would pack up the family and friends and they all will go off to a picnic associated with a lynching, kids and all.

Mutope, a prisoner in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU), notorious as one of America’s worst prison hell holes, where the recent hunger strikes originated and spread to at least 13 prisons across California, suggests that CDCR spokesperson Terry Thornton is the sort of person who might have taken her family for a picnic in the piney woods, where the entertainment was the lynching of a Black man. This is the lynching of Rubin Stacy in 1935 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

[This is the dialogue Mutope is referring to; it was reported by the advocate in an email received by the Bay View on Nov. 9, which was printed and mailed to him:

“I had the pleasure of speaking with Terry Thorton today. I asked why there was no public information about the prisoner who hung himself one to two weeks ago in ASU (Administrative Segregation Unit at Pelican Bay). She went on to tell me about the prisoner who hung himself a month ago. I told her this was a recent death and she started to ask me just how much I knew about it.

“I told her I know for certain that a nurse was present when a prisoner in ASU suddenly suffered mental health issues and screamed for help for several hours and no one came to his aid, and this was serious and concerning that their agency is entrusted to care for the safety and well-being of thousands of prisoners. She went on to tell me that a sergeant died over the weekend and why was I not more concerned about that? Is her life any less valuable than a prisoner? I told her that I was sorry for their loss; however, I am calling about a prisoner, not a staff member who died from natural causes.

“She asked me if the prisoner was someone important, I was, WHAT? She asked if he was like Charles Manson, someone well known. I told her what is she implying, that a prisoner’s death is not important if he is not a household name?

“And I explained that several prisoners who knew this man are grieving his loss, and this prisoner’s death impacted several prisoners’ mental stability as they heard his cries for help for several hours before his death. And I’m sure the prisoner who hung himself had family, and we’d like to reach out to the family and offer them emotional support.

“She said took down my information and said they will look into this matter, she told me she will not be calling me back but someone else probably will.

“In less than one month, two prisoners at Pelican Bay who had endured long term isolation both hung themselves. I think this is something we have been advocating – that isolation not only creates mental health problems but even suicide.

“I know that there was staff misconduct in this case and that is why they are trying to cover it up. And my feeling is that we should not let them get away with covering up the death of this prisoner, who was not just any prisoner but was in fact considered a jailhouse lawyer by all the prisoners he had been helping.

We should not let them get away with covering up the death of this prisoner, who was not just any prisoner but was in fact considered a jailhouse lawyer by all the prisoners he had been helping.

“I’m not sure how others feel about this, but I think if there are any legal visits taking place, then a visit to Pelican Bay ASU should take place to interview the prisoners who were present so they could be questioned privately. Clearly there was staff misconduct and they don’t want the public to know about it.”]

We all are aware of the two suicides and we been trying to tell brothers and sisters or anyone who will listen that people been dying and will continue to die, which is why we went on the hunger strike. We still got people dying right now and people think it’s a drive-by struggle, which is far from the truth.

We will continue to push forward united and committed to our cause to be liberated from these torture chambers. We have not benefited off none of our sacrifices to this day. Yet we will expose the perpetrators constantly, no matter what the retaliation may be.

We will continue to push forward united and committed to our cause to be liberated from these torture chambers. We have not benefited off none of our sacrifices to this day. Yet we will expose the perpetrators constantly, no matter what the retaliation may be.

CDCR and PBSP (Pelican Bay State Prison) took 15 of us to ASU H-Row and held us in freezing cold cells. On top of that, while we were subjected to this cruel and unusual punishment, the correction officers (COs) and gang intelligence officers were trashing our property, including thermal tops, bottoms, cosmetics, food, political writings, legal material and books. We lost this outright by criminal acts by prison guards or officials who in retaliation decided to discard our personal property.

We were denied adequate food once we came off the hunger strike, a very pathetic lunch in the morning and a very pathetic dinner, which was that same lunch. The prison officials in their attempt to discourage the hunger strikers deliberately made everyone suffer some kind of injustice simply because prisoners were expressing their First Amendment rights – peacefully, I might add!

I can assure you their harsh treatment didn’t discourage nobody because we all know what’s at stake here and we’re going to expose this criminal empire so that the people in this country can see that “their prisons” are run and controlled by criminals – savages who have a sick and demented mentality – which is why they have set up a prison system where they attack prisoners in a way to try and make them murder themselves by subjecting them to torture until they cannot take it no more.

This is why you have two suicides in a short period of time. It’s the treatment of prisoners that drives someone to disregard their own lives. Well, excuse my language, Mrs. Ratcliff, but we all were willing to die in a hunger strike to get attention and changes to a flawed validation policy, where prisoners are kept in solitary confinement indefinitely by fabricated tales by prison informants and officers.

We are subjected to a diet that is designed to murder each and every one of us as time goes on – i.e., years. Because none of the food is nutritional or healing to one’s body, one’s body naturally will deteriorate, especially since many of us are up in age and we are not getting the calories nor are we getting the nutritional value to keep us healthy. Why would the prison not allow us to purchase vitamins that will compensate for that which they have been unable to provide?

Why can’t we buy green tea, a very healthy antioxidant? Why can’t we buy tuna, our own peanut butter without diglycerides packed in it? Why can’t we purchase chili peppers, jalapenos, etc. that’s high in vitamin C, which we are denied? Why can’t we purchase dark chocolate that’s been proven to be very helpful for one’s brain power? They don’t feed us nothing but two items that’s good for us, an apple and a banana – that’s if they’re not rotten – or you may have to wait two to three days for it to get ripe.

The ombudsman was here during the hunger strike and when we came off the hunger strike, I asked her to try the breakfast. It was one boiled egg, one sausage the size of one’s thumb and some mush and she tried the mush rice and said it’s inedible. But she didn’t report it, which is how the “green wall” works. Plus the food was disproportionately served.

The ombudsman was here and when we came off the hunger strike, I asked her to try the breakfast. She tried the mush rice and said it’s inedible. But she didn’t report it, which is how the “green wall” works.

So it’s a lot of problems. We know that CDCR did not address the violation of long term solitary confinement, which is in violation of national and international law. So we are truly committed to seeing this out and we have no problem with sacrificing ourselves in order to change the conditions, just like the occupiers who were demonized – i.e., dehumanized – in order to justify the brutal treatment of them, as we seen the pigs crack the skull of a marine on national television.

Mutope Duguma, aka James Crawford, has been reporting to Bay View readers on the hunger strike from the beginning. He is the writer of “The Call,” the formal announcement that alerted the world to this massive hunger strike, “SHU prisoners sentenced to civil death begin hunger strike,” “This hunger strike is far from over,” “Pelican Bay SHU prisoners plan to resume hunger strike Sept. 26,” “Greed drives solitary confinement torture,” “Hip hop community, support our hunger strike!” and “Retaliation at Pelican Bay: Letters from the SHU.” This letter was typed by Adrian McKinney. Send our brother some love and light: Mutope Duguma, s/n James Crawford, D-05996, PBSP ASU-H-9, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532.

Steve Peace Rakes in $160,000 From CA Prison Guards

By Matt Potter

• Steve Peace rakes in the bucks from peace officers.

An El Cajon firm headed by former Democratic state senator Steve Peace has been raking in big bucks from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. According to state campaign finance disclosure records, J.S. Peace & Associates reported getting $60,000 from the public employees union in January, another $60,000 in March, and $40,000 in May, for a total of $160,000 during the first six months of this year. The purpose of the expense was reported as campaign consulting. Peace, onetime director of finance for ousted Democratic governor Gray Davis, has enjoyed long and friendly relations with the state prison guards, who have been major backers of his nonprofit California Independent Voter Project, a group that played a key role in getting voters to approve the state’s new nonpartisan primary system and each fall conducts a controversial shindig on Maui for lobbyists and members of the California legislature. Besides the prison union, event bankrollers reportedly have included Southern California Edison, big tobacco’s Altria, Pacific Gas and Electric, the California Beer and Beverage Distributors, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and Chevron.

Peace’s group uses the corporate and union cash to pick up the tab for the politicians, some of whom have subsequently reimbursed the organization after newspaper exposés focused public attention on the practice. This year the confab drew more media attention than usual, with the Sacramento Bee editorializing, “As expected, these lawmakers are attempting to dismiss any suggestion they will be inappropriately influenced by hanging out at the beach, pool and bar by interests that have a multimillion-dollar stake in legislative decisions.… Our view is: Lawmakers already have plenty of opportunity to mingle with experts and special interests in Sacramento. They don’t need to do it in Maui.”

As a nonprofit rather than a political committee, Peace’s project is not legally required to reveal its contributors’ names and as a result keeps most financial details to itself. According to its latest federal disclosure, filed with the Internal Revenue Service on July 19 and covering 2010, the organization received a total of $2,166,875 in contributions and grants. It had total expenses of $2,807,253. David Takashima, onetime Peace chief of staff and a former director of government affairs for utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric, is president and chief executive.

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A little known law enforcement group with heavy political sway

By Rina Palta

 

PORAC has one of the largest legal defense funds in country–and contributed to the defense of Johannes Mehserle.

 

 

With so much focus on the California Correctional Peace Officers Association as a political juggernaut, another influential law enforcement group in Sacramento seldom gets its due: the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC).

PORAC came to some Bay Area people’s attention during the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the former BART officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter for killing Oscar Grant. PORAC’s legal defense fund, apparently the largest such fund in the country, covered Mehserle’s legal bills.

 

Besides providing legal help to law enforcement accused of wrongdoing, PORAC invests heavily in political lobbying, according to a new report by the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Specifically, CJCJ found that PORAC put $3,322,164 on direct contributions between 2003-2010. Of that, 41 percent was spent on lobbying for or against ballot initiatives, such as their pro-stance on such “tough on crime” measures as Proposition 9 and Proposition 83. Proposition 9 makes it more difficult for inmates sentenced to crimes like murder to be granted parole. Proposition 83, “Jessica’s Law,” increased the supervision and living restrictions for registered sex offenders.

Three Prisoners Die in Hunger Strike Related Incidents: CDCR Withholds Information from Family Members, Fails to Report Deaths

In the month since the second phase of a massive prisoner hunger strike in California ended on September 22nd, three prisoners who had been on strike have committed suicide. Johnny Owens Vick and another prisoner were both confined in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit. Hozel Alanzo Blanchard was confined in the Calipatria Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU).

According to reports from prisoners who were housed in surrounding cells and who witnessed the deaths, guards did not come to the assistance of one of the prisoners at Pelican Bay or to Blanchard, and in the case of the Pelican Bay prisoner (whose name is being withheld for the moment), apparently guards deliberately ignored his cries for help for several hours before finally going to his cell, at which point he was already dead. “It is completely despicable that prison officials would willfully allow someone to take their own life,” said Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, “These guys were calling for help, their fellow prisoners were calling for help, and guards literally stood by and watched it happen.”

Family members of the deceased as well as advocates are having difficult time getting information about the three men and the circumstances of their deaths. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is required to do an autopsy in cases of suspicious deaths and according to the Plata case, is required to do an annual report on every death in the system.

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Turning jails into prisons: An opportunity for real reform

By Lawrence M. Hinman

Gov. Jerry Brown’s prison realignment initiative to transfer nonviolent offenders from state prisons to local facilities may be motivated primarily by cost-cutting concerns, but it provides California with a golden opportunity to take a leadership role in transforming our nation’s penal system. Decades ago, California initiated the three-strikes rule, resulting in a disastrous overcrowding of California’s prisons and – to the extent that other states followed our lead – a nationwide increase in prison populations that has now reached staggering proportions.

The statistics are stunning. Although the United States has only 5 percent of the world’s population, we have 25 percent of its prisoners. According to studies by the Pew Center for the States, almost 1 in every 100 people (2.1 million) in the United States is in prison or jail, and one in every 31 is currently involved in the criminal justice system whether incarcerated, on parole or on probation.

We have become the victims of our own righteousness, burdened down with the consequences of ever-harsher penal policies, policies that ultimately impose increasingly heavy burdens on ourselves as well as upon those whom we seek to punish.

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California pays $2.25 million to family of brain-damaged inmate

A lawsuit alleged a Ventura Youth Correctional Facility guard violated the prison’s suicide prevention policy by allowing the 16-year-old girl to cover her cell door window. She was found hanging.

 

By Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times

California prisons have paid $2.25 million to the family of an inmate left severely brain-damaged after she tried to hang herself in the mental health unit of the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility in Camarillo.

The family’s lawsuit alleged that a guard violated the prison’s suicide prevention policy by allowing then-16-year-old Shanelle Crawford to cover the window in the door of her cell in May 2008, making it impossible for staff to see inside.

In a 2009 deposition, the male guard said he occasionally let girls cover their windows for “a minute or two” while they used the toilet or undressed for the shower.

The extent of Crawford’s brain trauma suggested that she could have been hanging for eight to 10 minutes before guards forced their way into the cell and freed her from the noose she’d fashioned from a bedsheet, according to a neurologist hired by the family’s lawyer, Ronald Kaye.

Robert Crawford, the girl’s father, said he learned of the suicide attempt when an inmate advocacy group tracked him down in Texas a few days later. He didn’t grasp how desperate his daughter’s plight was until he reached the hospital in California and the doctor gave him a stark choice: “I could pull the plug or she would live as a vegetable for the rest of her life,” Crawford said.

Like many of the wards in Shanelle Crawford’s wing of the Ventura facility, she was profoundly troubled. She suffered from major depression, had been a victim of sexual abuse and had made a serious suicide attempt two years earlier, court records show.

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Why we might not want to write ‘mandatory prison labor’ into an initiative

The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor

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Mike Elk and Bob Sloan

The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners. At the Union Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in Florida, inmates from a nearby lower-security prison manufacture tons of processed beef, chicken and pork for Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises [2] (PRIDE), a privately held non-profit corporation that operates the state’s forty-one work programs. In addition to processed food, PRIDE’s website reveals an array of products for sale through contracts with private companies, from eyeglasses to office furniture, to be shipped from a distribution center in Florida to businesses across the US. PRIDE boasts that its work programs are “designed to provide vocational training, to improve prison security, to reduce the cost of state government, and to promote the rehabilitation of the state inmates.”
Although a wide variety of goods have long been produced by state and federal prisoners for the US government—license plates are the classic example, with more recent contracts including everything from guided missile parts to the solar panels powering government buildings—prison labor for the private sector was legally barred for years, to avoid unfair competition with private companies. But this has changed thanks to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), its Prison Industries Act, and a little-known federal program known as PIE (the Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program [3]). While much has been written about prison labor in the past several years, these forces, which have driven its expansion, remain largely unknown.
Somewhat more familiar is ALEC’s instrumental role in the explosion of the US prison population in the past few decades. ALEC helped pioneer some of the toughest sentencing laws on the books today, like mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, “three strikes” laws, and “truth in sentencing” laws. In 1995 alone, ALEC’s Truth in Sentencing Act [4] was signed into law in twenty-five states. (Then State Rep. Scott Walker was an ALEC member when he sponsored Wisconsin’s truth-in-sentencing laws and, according to PR Watch, used its statistics to make the case for the law.) More recently, ALEC has proposed innovative “solutions” to the overcrowding it helped create, such as privatizing the parole process through “the proven success of the private bail bond industry,” as it recommended in 2007. (The American Bail Coalition is an executive member of ALEC’s Public Safety and Elections Task Force.) ALEC has also worked to pass state laws to create private for-profit prisons, a boon to two of its major corporate sponsors: Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections), the largest private prison firms in the country. An In These Times investigation [5] last summer revealed that ALEC arranged secret meetings between Arizona’s state legislators and CCA to draft what became SB 1070, Arizona’s notorious immigration law, to keep CCA prisons flush with immigrant detainees. ALEC has proven expertly capable of devising endless ways to help private corporations benefit from the country’s massive prison population.
That mass incarceration would create a huge captive workforce was anticipated long before the US prison population reached its peak—and at a time when the concept of “rehabilitation” was still considered part of the mission of prisons. First created by Congress in 1979, the PIE program was designed “to encourage states and units of local government to establish employment opportunities for prisoners that approximate private sector work opportunities,” according to PRIDE’s website. The benefits to big corporations were clear—a “readily available workforce” for the private sector and “a cost-effective way to occupy a portion of the ever-growing offender/inmate population” for prison officials—yet from its founding until the mid-1990s, few states participated in the program.
This started to change in 1993, when Texas State Representative and ALEC member Ray Allen crafted the Texas Prison Industries Act, which aimed to expand the PIE program. After it passed in Texas, Allen advocated that it be duplicated across the country. In 1995, ALEC’s Prison Industries Act was born.
This Prison Industries Act as printed in ALEC’s 1995 state legislation sourcebook, “provides for the employment of inmate labor in state correctional institutions and in the private manufacturing of certain products under specific conditions.” These conditions, defined by the PIE program, are supposed to include requirements that “inmates must be paid at the prevailing wage rate” and that the “any room and board deductions…are reasonable and are used to defray the costs of inmate incarceration.” (Some states charge prisoners for room and board, ostensibly to offset the cost of prisons for taxpayers. In Florida, for example, prisoners are paid minimum wage for PIE-certified labor, but 40 percent is taken out of their accounts for this purpose.)
The Prison Industries Act sought to change this, inventing the “private sector prison industry expansion account,” to absorb such deductions, and stipulating that the money should be used to, among other things: “construct work facilities, recruit corporations to participate as private sector industries programs, and pay costs of the authority and department in implementing [these programs].” Thus, money that was taken from inmate wages to offset the costs of incarceration would increasingly go to expanding prison industries. In 2000, Florida passed a law that mirrored the Prison Industries Act and created the Prison Industries Trust Fund, its own version of the private sector prison industry expansion account, deliberately designed to help expand prison labor for private industries.
The Prison Industries Act was also written to exploit a critical PIE loophole that seemed to suggest that its rules did not apply to prisoner-made goods that were not shipped across state lines. It allowed a third-party company to set up a local address in a state that makes prison goods, buy goods from a prison factory, sell those products locally or surreptitiously ship them across state borders. It helped that by 1995 oversight of the PIE program had been effectively squashed, transferred from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance [6] to the National Correctional Industries Association [7] (NCIA), a private trade organization that happened to be represented by Allen’s lobbying firm, Service House, Inc. In 2003, Allen became the Texas House Chairman of the Corrections Committee and began peddling the Prison Industries Act and other legislation beneficial to CCA and Geo Group, like the Private Correctional Facilities Act [8]. Soon thereafter he became Chairman of ALEC’s Criminal Justice (now Public Safety and Elections) Task Force. He resigned from the state legislature in 2006 while under investigation for his unethical lobbying practices. He was hired soon after as a lobbyist for Geo Group.

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Stay of Execution Granted for Hank Skinner Pending a DNA Test

Hank Skinner’s execution has been stayed.

Thank you to everyone who signed the petition! The news media mentioned in many articles that more than 129,000 signed the petition, so you helped make a difference.

Here’s the  language from the court order:

This is a direct appeal of the trial court’s ruling on a motion for DNA testing filed in the 31st Judicial District Court of Gray County, Cause No. 5216, styled The State of Texas v. Henry Watkins Skinner. See TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. art. 64.05. Appellant’s execution is stayed pending the resolution of this appeal.

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 64, which provides for DNA testing, has undergone several changes since its creation, but those changes have never been reviewed in the particular context of this case. Because the DNA statute has changed, and because some of those changes were because of this case, we find that it would be prudent for this Court to take time to fully review the changes in the statute as they pertain to this case.

Furthermore, in denying the motion for DNA testing, the convicting court has failed to enter determinations under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure article 64.03. The convicting court shall enter an order containing the relevant Article 64.03 determinations within 15 days of the date of this order. That order shall then be included within a supplemental clerk’s record, which record shall be forwarded to this Court within 30 days of the date of this order.

IT IS SO ORDERED THIS THE 7th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2011.

Hank Skinner’s wife Sandrine will be one of the speakers this weekend at the national conference of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, which is being held for the first time in Austin, Texas. 

Attend the conference and come hear Sandrine talk about Hank’s case. Also speaking will be Liz Gilbert, the friend of Todd Willingham who was instrumental in finding a fire expert to reexamine the evidence in his case.

 

The Prison System is the New Jim Crow

 

The CEDP”s 11th Annual Convention

 

 

November 11-13

  

At Ventana Del Soul

1834 East Oltorf, Austin, Texas

Texas court denies DNA test for death row inmate Hank Skinner

Six days before his execution date, a Texas death row inmate was dealt another blow as a court denied a request for DNA testing he claims would prove his innocence.

Hank Skinner was convicted of bludgeoning his girlfriend to death and fatally stabbing two of her children. Barring a reprieve, his execution has been set for November 9.

Skinner, 49, has not denied being present in the home at the time of the killings but he has insisted that DNA collected at the site could clear him as a suspect in the 1993 crimes.

Attorney Robert Owen told AFP his client was “deeply disappointed” at the US District Court’s ruling but “hopeful” it would be overturned. He plans to ask an appeals court to reconsider the request.

Texas has refused to carry out the tests on evidence found at the home ever since a jury convicted him in 1995.

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