APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS CONVICTION IN COLLEGE STATION MURDER

  

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction of a College Station death row inmate.

28-year-old Gabriel Hall was convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 for the murder of retired Texas A&M University professor Edwin Shaar and the stabbing of his wife, Linda, at their home in College Station in October 2011.  Hall was a student at A&M Consolidated High School at the time.

Hall’s attorneys raised 15 points in an automatic appeal to the state court, including a claim that evidence could not support the jury’s decision that Hall would be a future threat to the community.

This month, the court found that the points raised by Hall’s defense team were without merit.  Hall’s attorneys have filed a motion for the court to reconsider.

Hall remains on death row at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston.