Melissa Lucio waits as Texas court considers overturning her conviction after evidence was withheld in her 2007 death row ...

The judge's filing ... Lucio's conviction and sentence should be overturned. "This is the best news we could get going into the holidays,” John Lucio and Michelle Lucio, Melissa Lucio's son ...

Efforts to free Melissa ... Judge Arturo Nelson concluded that prosecutors presented false testimony, suppressed evidence and that new scientific evidence that was not available during Lucio’s ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of ...