ANDERSON COUNTY, Texas — Attorneys for Robert Roberson claim new evidence revealed in a recently released NBC podcast warrants a retrial in his case.

The podcast, titled The Last Appeal, was produced by NBC’s Dateline. In the second episode, Larry Bowman — the maternal grandfather of Roberson’s late daughter, Nikki Curtis — alleges that Anderson County Judge Bascom Bentley authorized the Bowmans to remove Nikki from life-sustaining care. Judge Bentley later presided over Roberson’s trial.

“It is now indisputable that Robert’s case was infected by egregious judicial misconduct from the outset,” said Roberson’s attorney, Gretchen Sween. “...That action, long shrouded in secrecy, creates more than simply an appearance of bias — although even the ‘appearance of bias’ is all that the law re

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