A Texas death row inmate is expected to get a new trial over anti-Semitic bias harbored against him by the judge who presided over his case, according to a court ruling.
Randy Halprin, a “Texas Seven” prison gang member, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins on Dec. 24, 2000. His lawyers have long argued that Judge Vickers Cunningham, who presided over his trial, was biased against him because Halprin is Jewish.
