In new legal filings, attorneys for death row inmate Robert Roberson argue judicial bias robbed their client of a fair trial. The accusations are part of a Notice of New Evidence filed with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Roberson was convicted in 2003 of murdering his 2-year old daughter, Nikki, the year before. Last week, Roberson’s attorneys filed a judicial misconduct claim with the CCA, arguing Roberson’s parental rights were violated when a judge granted Nikki’s grandparents the authority to decide whether she should be removed from life support.

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However, it wasn’t until Nikki’s grandfather, Larry Bowman, went on Lester Holt’s podcast, ‘The Last Appeal,’ that Roberson’s attorneys

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