U.S. top court backs Texas death row inmate in race case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of a convicted murderer in Texas who is seeking to avoid execution after his own trial lawyer called an expert witness who testified the man was more apt to be dangerous in the future because he is black. The court ruled 6-2 that death row inmate Duane Buck, 53, should get a shot at a new sentence in a state that has executed more people than any other since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States four decades ago. Clinical psychologist Walter Quijano, testifying as a defense witness on the likelihood of Buck committing future offenses, said black and Hispanic people are more likely to be dangerous because they are "over-represented" among violent offenders.