WASHINGTON — A state judge in Texas ruled that Areli Escobar, a death row inmate there, had been convicted based on junk science produced by a police DNA lab so riddled with problems that it had ...

A Travis County jury in 2011 convicted Escobar of capital murder after hearing testimony that, in May 2009, 17-year-old Bianca Maldonado was stabbed 46 times, beaten and sexually assaulted before ...

The trial of Escobar, convicted of sexually assaulting and fatally stabbing 17-year-old Bianca Maldonado, is so far the most high-profile case to be reexamined after a state audit revealed that ...

Areli Escobar was sentenced to death in 2011 for an Austin murder, but even prosecutors now agree his conviction relied heavily on faulty DNA testing by the discredited Travis County crime lab.

Areli Escobar was convicted and sentenced to death in 2011 in the murder and sexual assault of 17-year-old Bianca Maldonado, but his attorneys moved to secure a new trial after a state audit ...

Escobar was convicted and sentenced to death in the May 2009 fatal stabbing and sexual assault of Bianca Maldonado, a 17-year-old high school student in Austin. They lived in the same apartment ...

Areli Escobar, a death row inmate from Austin, and Travis County District Attorney José Garza question the reliability of testing by Austin crime lab. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion ...

2:30 p.m. update: Death row inmate Areli Escobar will have multiple opportunities over the next year or so to present evidence his lawyers believe shows he did not kill young mother Bianca ...

When he learned Friday that a jury decided he should die for fatally stabbing and sexually assaulting his 17-year-old neighbor, Areli Carbajal Escobar closed his eyes briefly and exhaled. The sligh… ...

Last Friday, that jury convicted 32-year-old Areli Escobar of capital murder and sexual assault. Now it must decide whether to send him to death row, or give him li ...

Bianca Maldonado, 17, was fatally stabbed and sexually assaulted in May of 2009. Her one-year-old baby was injured in the attack. As the sentencing phase for convicted murderer Areli Escobar, 32 ...