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Appeals court grants new hearing in 1988 Tucson double murder

Nick Newman, Cronkite News Service//July 29, 2011//

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Appeals court grants new hearing in 1988 Tucson double murder

Appeals court grants new hearing in 1988 Tucson double murder

Nick Newman, Cronkite News Service//July 29, 2011//

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that lower courts must consider convicted murderer Richard Harley Greenway’s claim that he was poorly represented in his trial for the 1988 murders of...

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Tags: Trial court, United States courts of appeals, Lili Champagne, appellate court, Capital punishment, Richard Harley Greenway, Arizona Department of Corrections, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Mindy Peters, Tucson Arizona

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