Houston man gets new sentencing in boy's death
HOUSTON
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling late Thursday came
in the case of Warren Darrell Rivers. The 43-year-old construction
worker was condemned for the May 1987 slaying of 11-year-old Carl
Nance Jr.
Evidence showed the boy was lured into an abandoned house,
assaulted, beaten, sexually mutilated and fatally stabbed.
Prosecutors had appealed a lower court's order granting him a
new sentencing trial because of jury instruction problems. Rivers'
lawyers had appealed the lower court's rejection of an entirely new
trial because of jury selection issues.
