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    Jose Garcia Briseno - Texas

    Facts of the Crime:

    Briseno was convicted of the January 1991 murder of Dimmit County Sheriff Ben "Doc" Murray. Murray was killed inside his home following a violent struggle with Briseno and accomplice Alberto Gonzalez. The sheriff suffered numerous stab wounds inflicted with a butcher knife found buried in his chest. He had also been shot once in the head. Briseno and Gonzalez reportedly killed Murray to avenge previous arrests he had made against them.

    Briseno was sentenced to death in September 1992.

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    HOUSTON -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has thrown out the sentence of a death row inmate convicted of shooting a South Texas sheriff to death almost 20 years ago.

    The court ruled Wednesday that jurors who decided Jose Briseno, 53, should be put to death didn't have enough information in their instructions from the trial judge.

    At the time of Briseno's trial in 1992, the rules regarding capital murder jury instructions were evolving to comply with U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

    Briseno was convicted of gunning down Dimmit County Sheriff Ben "Doc" Murray, 68, in January 1991 at the lawman's home in Carizzo Springs, about 140 miles southwest of San Antonio.

    Murray was shot in the head and was also stabbed repeatedly.

    Murray had arrested Briseno in the past and prosecutors said Murray was killed to avenge those arrests.

    The case returns to the trial court for a new penalty phase.

    http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/95968744.html

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    999043 Briseno Jose 05/13/2013 Sentence commuted to life, #1853416

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    More than 20 years after he was condemned and in 2002 very nearly executed for shooting Dimmit County Sheriff Ben Murray, Jose Garcia Briseno today was sentenced to an effective life without parole term in prison for Capital Murder.

    The sentencing occurred as part of a plea bargain and ends years of litigation concerning Mr. Briseno’s retardation and his right to a sentencing trial that allowed full consideration of mitigating evidence.

    Mr. Briseno’s defense team includes: longtime appointed counsel Dick Burr, who won the stay that prevented Mr. Briseno from being executed; San Antonio attorney Mark Stevens; Texas Defender Service mitigation specialist and senior staff attorney Naomi Terr; TDS mitigation specialist Randi Wall-Chavez; mitigation specialist Nicole Van Toorn; fact investigator Jim McKay; and classification expert Frank AuBuchon. Also working tirelessly on the case have been: Elisabeth Semel and her students from the Berkeley Death Penalty Clinic; attorney Hilary Sheard; and Hugo Martinez and Guillermo Lara, both of the Laredo Public Defender's Office.

    Ever since Mr. Briseno’s execution was stayed in 2002, volunteer interns have provided invaluable assistance in investigating factual and legal topics. This group has included law students, social work students, undergraduates, British law interns, and students from the Cornell Death Penalty Clinic.

    University of Texas Law Prof. Jordan Steiker and Robert Owen, now of Northwestern University School of Law, were on the CCA briefs that won the resentencing trial for Mr. Briseno. Many, many others worked on Mr. Briseno’s case before he was granted a retrial, including: attorney Mandy Welch; Alma Lagarda, a TDS staff attorney who worked on the case when she was an intern; and private investigator Richard Reyna.

    http://www.texasdefender.org/cases/181-jbriseno

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    He will be parole eligible on April 25, 2028, at the age of 70.

    http://offender.tdcj.state.tx.us/POS...n?sid=02364546

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    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...garcia-briseno
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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