{"id":346930,"date":"2026-06-23T11:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346930\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:44:14","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-orders-texas-appeals-court-to-reconsider-a-retrial-in-1996-gainesville-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346930\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court orders Texas appeals court to reconsider a retrial in 1996 Gainesville murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Texas (KXII) &#8211; The U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/search.aspx?filename=\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/25-862.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/search.aspx?filename=\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/25-862.html\">has ordered<\/a> the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/06\/22\/scotus-texas-court-of-criminal-appeals-michael-newberry\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/06\/22\/scotus-texas-court-of-criminal-appeals-michael-newberry\/\">to reconsider its denial<\/a> of a retiral for a man who was sentenced to life in prison for a 1996 Gainesville murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Michael Newberry, a then 17-year-old, was convicted of the May 1996 murder of Granville Hanks, 62. Hanks had been found dead in a car with a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 2025, Newberry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxii.com\/2025\/02\/07\/man-convicted-1996-cooke-county-murder-seeking-new-trial\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kxii.com\/2025\/02\/07\/man-convicted-1996-cooke-county-murder-seeking-new-trial\/\">sought a new trial<\/a> following the recent discovery of alleged withholding of evidence in the case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A judge ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxii.com\/2025\/04\/12\/man-serving-life-sentence-1996-gainesville-murder-may-get-retrial\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kxii.com\/2025\/04\/12\/man-serving-life-sentence-1996-gainesville-murder-may-get-retrial\/\">relief could be granted<\/a> for Newberry, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=e891333b-fea4-4251-ab4d-423d89a53e67&amp;coa=coscca&amp;DT=ORDER&amp;MediaID=ed6b0646-5d58-4f84-ac96-fcf0772fcedd\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=e891333b-fea4-4251-ab4d-423d89a53e67&amp;coa=coscca&amp;DT=ORDER&amp;MediaID=ed6b0646-5d58-4f84-ac96-fcf0772fcedd\">denied that request<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25-862\/404503\/20260415095029883_260412a%20BIO%20for%20efiling.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25-862\/404503\/20260415095029883_260412a%20BIO%20for%20efiling.pdf\">In April<\/a>, Cooke County District Attorney John Warren stated in a briefing that \u201cAfter a full investigation of the evidence and an exhaustive review of Petitioner\u2019s trial, the State no longer had confidence in the verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KXII. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Texas (KXII) &#8211; The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reconsider&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123837,81558,123836,123833,123834,123832,636,18340,123835,37720,5759,27,29,64480,28],"class_list":["post-346930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-1996-murder","tag-cooke-county","tag-cooke-county-murder","tag-gainesville-murder","tag-granville-hanks","tag-michael-newberry","tag-murder","tag-murder-trial","tag-retrial","tag-scotus","tag-supreme-court","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-murder","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}