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New trial ordered for Texas death row inmate over antisemitic judge

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday ordered a new trial for Randy Halprin, one of the “Texas 7” who escaped from a Lone Star State prison in December 2000, committed a string of robberies, and killed a cop on Christmas Eve during their 40-odd days on the lam, after the panel ruled that the now retired Judge Vickers Cunningham in Dallas used racial slurs and antisemitic language to refer to Halprin and some of his co-defendants during the trial, the AP reports.

The court found evidence that throughout his life, Cunningham propagated antisemitic bullshit and, after rising to the bench, continued to use derogatory language about Jewish people outside the courtroom “with ‘great hatred, (and) disgust’ and increasing intensity as the years passed,” the court ruled. Cunningham allegedly referred to Halprin himself as a “k*ke” and a “fucking Jew” and said Jews “needed to be shut down because they controlled all the money,” during the trial.

“Today, the Court of Criminal Appeals took a step towards broader trust in the criminal law by throwing out a hopelessly tainted death judgment handed down by a bigoted and biased judge,” one of Halprin’s attorneys, Tivon Schardl, said in a statement. “It also reminded Texans that religious bigotry has no place in our courts.” Yeah, Schardl apparently said that with a straight face.

Halprin, 47, is the second-to-last survivor of the Texas Seven, as one shot himself as police approached in January 2001 and four of the others have been executed since their conviction. Another one, Patrick Murphy, awaits execution, stayed now for five years to the day over whether Murphy would be allowed to have a Buddhist chaplain with him in the lethal injection chamber.

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