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Bobby Moore

Case from Houston, TX dated Aug 27, 2007

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Bobby Moore

March 28, 2022

Houston

TX

2007-08-27

54

Bobby

Moore

07/13/2026


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Bobby Moore, a 54-year-old from Houston, Texas, was involved in a high-profile legal case that significantly changed how Texas evaluates intellectual disability in death penalty cases. On August 27, 2007, Moore had been serving time in prison after a 1980 conviction for the fatal shooting of a 73-year-old clerk, James McCarble, during a robbery in Houston. He was initially sentenced to death but spent 40 years on death row, his case repeatedly moving between state courts and the U.S. Supreme Cou ...
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  • Ex parte Bobby Moore (original by judge johnson) - Justia Law
  • Bobby James Moore - Death Penalty Information Center
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