HOUSTON (AP) – The state’s highest criminal court has rejected an appeal from a Dallas man sentenced death for killing his girlfriend and her teenage daughter in 2011.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decision on Wednesday upheld the findings of 44-year-old Tyrone Cade’s trial court which held a hearing to review what Cade’s attorneys said were 16 errors from his 2012 trial.
Most of the arguments centered on whether Cade’s trial attorneys were constitutionally deficient.
Cade was convicted of killing 37-year-old Mischell Fuller and her 18-year-old daughter Desaree Hoskins at their home in Irving.
Fuller was stabbed 28 times, Hoskins 39 times.
Cade’s trial lawyers argued that he was insane at the time. He had previously served three years in prison for sexual assault.
Cade does not have a scheduled execution date.
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