A man who fatally stabbed a real estate agent inside a model home in suburban Dallas faces execution Wednesday evening, more than 16 years after the slaying.
His attorneys had argued new science raises the possibility Chanthakoummane's DNA could have been transferred to Walker's fingernails without any direct contact between the two."Any belief by Chanthakoummane that further DNA investigation would yield results that will be helpful to his case is a fantasy," lawyers with the Texas Attorney General's Office wrote in court documents last month.
Chanthakoummane's attorneys say their concerns about the DNA evidence is part of a pattern by prosecutors of using faulty evidence in the case. The two witnesses who said they saw Chanthakoummane near the murder scene were hypnotized by officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety, or DPS, to help identify him.
In October 2020, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found that while the bitemark testimony would no longer be admissible in court, Chanthakoummane's attorneys had failed to discredit the hypnosis-related testimony.At his trial, Chanthakoummane's attorney, Keith Gore, told jurors his client was guilty"and he wanted to rob , and it didn't go the right way, and he killed her."
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