Leach, one of the driving forces behind the effort to stop Roberson’s execution, later apologized to the unnamed judge, who told the lawmaker there were still pending matters before the court.
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Leach, who noted that he is not an active party to any matters before the court, added that only one judge on the bench needed to change their mind on Roberson’s case and allow the court to reconsider his request for a new trial. A 5-4 majority of the court rejected Roberson’s latest appeals. Roberson currently has no pending matters before the Court of Criminal Appeals, which Leach pointed to in his correspondence to the high court.According to Texas’ Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, lawyers are prohibited from attempting to influence a court about a pending matter before that court, or about matters that are “reasonably foreseeable” to be before that court. Violations of the rules could result in disciplinary action from the State Bar of Texas.
The subpoena created a separation of powers issue between the state’s executive and legislative branches. Roberson’s execution is delayed pending the resolution of that conflict. Members of Nikki’s family — her brother, Matthew Bowman, her aunt, Jessica Rachelle Carriere, and her grandfather, Larry Gene Bowman — sent a letter to the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence saying they are convinced of Roberson’s guilt.
“No one who knew Robert well believed he was capable of harming any child,” Thomas Roberson, the death row inmate’s younger brother, said on behalf of himself, his partner, Jennifer Martin, and his brother, John Roberson. “And to this day, I am convinced that he could not have done what he was accused of doing.”
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