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« Reply #80 on: December 17, 2014, 02:37:00 PM »

Just heard that they gave him the death penalty on our local news.   

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/27650397/kaufman-county-killer-eric-williams-sentenced-to-death

 

ROCKWALL, Texas - ROCKWALL, Texas (AP) -- A former justice of the peace in North Texas was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing a district attorney's wife in what prosecutors described as a revenge plot that left three people dead.

Eric Williams was convicted Dec. 4 of capital murder in the 2013 death of Cynthia McLelland, who was slain along with her husband, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, in their home east of Dallas.

Williams has been charged, but not tried, in the deaths of Mike McLelland and prosecutor Mark Hasse.

The 47-year-old Williams lost his job and law license after McLelland and Hasse prosecuted him for theft and burglary.

Prosecutors say that conviction pushed Williams over the edge. During his trial, they presented evidence that he paid a friend to rent a storage unit where he kept more than 30 guns, police tactical gear and a getaway car.
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« Reply #81 on: January 18, 2015, 05:49:31 PM »

BBM  No.  No new trial.  The murders were premeditated, well planned.  Not buying it.  Suck it up Eric.

www.wfaa.com/story/news/crime/2015/01/17/kaufman-county-killer-seeks-new-trial/21917909/
Kaufman County killer seeks new trial
January 17, 2015

Eric Williams, the former Kaufman County justice of the peace who was sentenced to death last month for murdering District Attorney Mike McClelland and his wife in 2013, is asking for a new trial.

Public defender John Wright filed a motion on Friday asserting that a doctor has determined that Williams suffered a "probable prior brain injury" linked to "uncontrolled diabetes" that affected his judgment, behavior and emotion.

Wright argues that this "newly discovered evidence" could have saved his client from a death sentence.

The condemned man's attorney also contends that Judge John Snipes, who presided over Williams' murder trial, was "demonstrably biased in favor of a capital murder conviction."

At Williams' trial, prosecutors presented evidence linking him to the murders of Mike and Cynthia McClelland and the streetcorner assassination of prosecutor Mark Hasse. They said the defendant was motivated to kill after being convicted of stealing county property, then being removed from his JP post and stripped of his license to practice law.

Eric Williams' appeal for a new trial will be heard by 62nd District Court presiding Judge Webb Biard.
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