East Texas detective Brian Wharton helped investigate and prosecute Robert Roberson for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old ...

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As 2025 comes to an end, we look back at some of the most memorable moments across East Texas this year, including legal ...

Robert Roberson waits to be interviewed in a locked visitation cell at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit prison in Livingston, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. Roberson, who has maintained his innocence on ...

Texas' highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson’s execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his case back to trial court. Roberson was convicted of capital murder in ...

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Attorneys for death-row inmate Robert Roberson urged a Texas court Tuesday to weigh a new ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court that found shaken baby syndrome evidence too unreliable for juries — ...

PALESTINE, Texas — Dates have been set for hearings where evidence will be considered in the case of East Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson. On Friday, both the state and Roberson's defense team ...

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LIVINGSTON, Texas(AP) — Robert Roberson was calm and hopeful as he pondered his mortality and whether he could again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied ...