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Hank Skinner was born Henry Watkins Skinner on April 4. 1962 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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Skinner committed the murders on December 31, 1993 at 801 East Campbell Avenue in Pampa Texas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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The reason to why Skinner is on trial now is because he was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Twila Busby and their two kids Elwin Caler and Randy Busby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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On November 27, 2009, the defense team filed a complaint in federal court against the Gray County DA, Lynn Switzer, for refusing to release the evidence to the defense for private DNA testing, which she could conceivably do without a court order. On January 15, the magistrate in charge of the complaint recommended that it be dismissed and on January 20, the Federal district Judge affirmed the dismissal, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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Skinner lived with the victims and admitted that he was in the home when the murders took place, but claims he was in a comatose condition from a near lethal dose of codeine and alcohol. But he was within feet of where the murder took place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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Skinner makes false allegations to how he mixes up the pills. Skinner claims he is color blind and could differenciate between the codeine and his medication causing him to fall into a comatose state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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Skinner went to the supreme court and sued the Texas Court of Appeals for the state findings of the DNA during post-conviction fo his crimes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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Skinner went on trial by the Texas State Court of Appeals on June 2, 2011 for the DNA test of the deceased and his DNA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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Skinner was once serving as an inmate on death row in the Texas state prison after his third execution date http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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Skinner was given a new execution date by The Gray County District Court in which District Attorney Lynn Switzer said this date complied with is right of due process rather his date of June 2, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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Skinner was given a new execution date of November 11, 2011. That date has been stayed in order for the courts to consider Skinner's request for DNA testing. Skinner resides on death row in the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Polk County, Texas, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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On May 26, 2011, the Senate of Texas voted unanimously for the Senate Bill 122, a Criminal Justice Reform Bill, expanding access to post-conviction DNA testing. This bill, would allow post-conviction testing "whenever there is biological evidence that has not previously been tested, or when the evidence can be subjected to newer techniques that might be more revealing than the results of an older test." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeal decide it is no longer in oposition to an inamates request to a DNA test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Skinner
