Murder Trial Underway Again in Gregg County
Posted/updated on: March 1, 2012 at 11:01 am
LONGVIEW — A re-trial is underway for a Hallsville man whose capital murder conviction was reversed in 2010 by a Gregg County appeals court. Desmond Dewayne Jackson, 30, is accused in the 2007 slaying of 56-year-old Melvin Brad Mitchell, while robbing the Cash America Pawn Shop on High Street in Longview.
According to KETK, Jackson was sentenced in 2009 to life in prison without parole, but the verdict was reversed by the appeals court, because it found the introduction of evidence from an unrelated Harrison County robbery to be prejudicial to Jackson’s case, Gregg County District Attorney Carl Dorrough said at the time.
