{"id":211076,"date":"2012-09-05T15:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T20:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211076"},"modified":"2012-09-06T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:10:57","slug":"attorneys-representing-kfc-murderers-file-for-new-dna-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211076","title":{"rendered":"Attorneys Representing KFC Murderers File for New DNA Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=211081\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-211081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/09\/kfc_murders-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kfc_murders\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-211081\" \/><\/a>KILGORE \u2014 New motions have been filed to test DNA in the infamous \u201cKFC\u201d case. According to KETK, the defendants were convicted on DNA evidence. But both Darnell Hartsfield, 47, and his cousin Romeo Pinkerton, 53, want the DNA retested by an independent source, according to the Smith County District Attorney\u2019s Office. The Longview News-Journal reported in 2010 that the Texas Sixth Court of Appeals upheld Hartsfield\u2019s conviction.<\/p>\n<p>A Brazos County jury in October 2008 found Hartsfield guilty of the murders of five people kidnapped from a Kilgore Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1983. Hartsfield appealed the verdict, arguing prosecutors did not provide sufficient evidence for a jury to reasonably determine his guilt and that the court allowed inappropriate testimony about other criminal offenses during the trial.<\/p>\n<p>The appellate judges ruled the physical and circumstantial evidence presented in the case were sufficient for a reasonable jury to decide Hartsfield\u2019s guilt. To convict him of capital murder, the judges said prosecutors did not have to prove Hartsfield shot the victims but that he was participating in an aggravated robbery when the murders occurred. The judges also ruled the admission of prior criminal offenses as identifying evidence was valid because the crimes were similar. Prosecutors may introduce similar criminal offenses when the defendant argues another person committed the crime, they said. Hartsfield and Pinkerton are currently serving life prison sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE \u2014 New motions have been filed to test DNA in the infamous \u201cKFC\u201d case. According to KETK, the defendants were convicted on DNA evidence. But both Darnell Hartsfield, 47, and his cousin Romeo Pinkerton, 53, want the DNA retested by an independent source, according to the Smith County District Attorney\u2019s Office. The Longview News-Journal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attorneys Representing KFC Murderers File for New DNA Test<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 15:19:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211076"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211308,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211076\/revisions\/211308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}