By Robert Moore, El Paso Matters A federal judge has made public dozens of sealed files from the prosecution of the man who killed 23 people in a race-driven attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, but he still has to decide on a request by El Paso Matters to unseal numerous other records in the case. U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama signed an order Oct. 30 to unseal more than 50 documents that had been filed between 2020 and 2023 in the prosecution of Patrick Crusius, who faced federal hate crimes and weapons charges in the Aug. 3, 2019, attack at the Cielo Vista Walmart store.

Guaderrama ordered the unsealing after the defense and prosecution both said they had no objection to their release. The newly public documents shed little additional light on the prosecution, other than providi

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