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Thread: Robert Alan Fratta - Texas Execution - January 10, 2023

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    Former suburban Houston officer on death row loses appeal in murder-for-hire case

    HOUSTON (AP) — A former suburban Houston police officer sent to death row for hiring two hit men to kill his estranged wife has lost an appeal at Texas' highest appeals court.

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed Wednesday with the Harris County trial judge in the case of 56-year-old Robert Fratta who rejected Fratta's challenges to his conviction and death sentence.

    Fratta is a former Missouri City officer convicted twice of masterminding the 1994 shooting death of his wife, Farah. His first conviction in 1996 was thrown out by a federal judge. Fratta was retried and convicted again in 2009.

    Two other men, Joseph Prystash, the middleman Fratta hired to find someone to do the killing, and triggerman Howard Guidry, also are on death row for Farah Fratta's slaying.

    http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/sto...cution-Appeal/

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    So where does this go now the Supreme court for more appeals? Reason I ask is this was a very high profile case, even in Canada.
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    As I said on Facebook, the divorce attorney that was representing his wife at the time he killed her, also represented me. It was final in 1996 while his trial was going on. He was a horrible lawyer for me & just found out last week that he didn't follow up on my paperwork & some of my money was still listed in my ex's name & some was turned over to the state because he didn't send them my information. I know he testified at the Fratta trial because he also worked out at the same gym.

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    MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION OF APPLICATION FROM WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DENIED WITHOUT WRITTEN ORDER:

    http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/op...ilingID=299318

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Fratta's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
    Case Nos.: (WR-31,536-04)
    Decision Date: February 12, 2014
    Rehearing Denied: April 9, 2014

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-5037.htm

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Fratta's petition for rehearing.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-5037.htm

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    On June 24, 2015, Fratta filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...s/ca5/15-20349

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    This is the episode of Werner Herzog's "On Death Row" featuring Robert Fratta:


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