Word: hathorn
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However, strong defense lawyers are especially necessary in cases where the prosecutors make mistakes. The Texas Defender Service identified 41 cases of prosecutorial misconduct, including many where the same prosecutor changed theories between trials. In one case, Gene Hathorn and James Beathard were both accused of a murder; at the first trial, the prosecutor argued that Beathard was the gunman and secured a death sentence, but at a second, the same prosecutor argued that Hathorn was the gunman and secured another capital conviction. One of those theories has to be factually incorrect--yet Beathard was executed in 1995, and Hathorn...