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    Joseph Andrew Prystash - Texas Death Row


    Farah Baquer Fratta




    Summary of Offense:

    Joseph Prystash was convicted for the November 1994 murder-for-hire death of Farah Fratta, the 34-year-old wife of former police officer Robert Fratta who was convicted of masterminding her murder during a child custody battle. Prosecutors said Prystash, with the promise of a Jeep as renumeration for his part in the plot, arranged the details of the murder and passed the murder weapon to triggerman Howard Guidry. Guidry was paid $3,000 for murdering Mrs. Fratta.

    Prystash was sentenced to death in Harris County in August 1996.

    Fratta and Guidry were also sentenced to death.
    For more on Fratta, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...=howard+guidry
    For more on Guidry, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...=howard+guidry

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    On April 28, 2005, Prystash filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/tex...v01546/387390/

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    EX PARTE JOSEPH ANDREW PRYSTASH

    In today's TCCA orders, Prystash's subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus was denied.
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    Middleman in murder-for-hire plot loses appeal

    HOUSTON (AP) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected an appeal from an auto mechanic sent to death row for being the middleman in a murder-for-hire plot that left a Houston-area police officer's wife fatally shot nearly two decades ago.

    The state's highest criminal said Wednesday claims from 56-year-old Joseph Prystash weren't legally acceptable so they've been dismissed without even considering their merits.

    Evidence showed Prystash was contacted by former Missouri City officer Robert Fratta, who offered him a Jeep to find a hitman to kill Fratta's estranged 33-year-old wife, Farah. She was killed at her home in 1994.

    Fratta, Prystash and triggerman Howard Guidry all are on death row. None of them has an execution date.

    Prystash already had a long criminal record, including seven felony convictions in Florida.
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    On March 17, 2016, Prystash's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...1546/387390/62

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    On May 18, 2016, Prystash filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...s/ca5/16-70014

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    On March 7, 2017, oral argument will be heard in Prystash's appeal before the Fifth Circuit.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/clerk/ca...3/16-70014.htm

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    COA denied today by the 5th Circuit.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions...-70014-CV0.pdf

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    Planner in murder-for-hire case loses federal appeal

    By Brett Barrouquere
    The Houston Chronicle

    An auto mechanic convicted of plotting the murder-for-hire of the wife of a former police officer in exchange for a Jeep has lost a federal appeal.

    The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims by Joseph Prystash that evidence was withheld in his case and his rights to a fair jury were violated.

    Farah Fratta's husband, Robert Fratta, a former Missouri City public safety officer who authorities say was the mastermind behind the killing, was sentenced to die for his role in his estranged wife's murder in 1996.

    The couple was reportedly caught in a divorce and custody dispute when Robert Fratta hired two men to kill his 34-year-old wife.

    According to prosecutors, Robert Fratta first hired Prystash, who was promised to receive a Jeep as compensation for his services, to murder Farah. Prystash worked out a murderous plan but then passed his .38-caliber pistol on to Howard Paul Guidry, whom he enlisted to carry out the deed.

    Guidry, a laborer and 18 years old at the time of the shooting, was to receive $3,000 for the killing. Prosecutors say that on Feb. 9, 1994, Prystash drove Guidry to Farah Fratta's house.

    Guidry then reportedly ambushed Farah Fratta as she stepped from her car inside the garage of her Atascocita home and shot her twice in the head.

    Robert Fratta, Prystash and Guidry are all on death row.

    http://www.chron.com/news/houston-te...l-11100715.php

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    On June 27, 2017, the Fifth Circuit DENIED Prystash's petition for en banc rehearing.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/17-6127.html
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