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A man who was convicted and sentenced to death for strangling a fellow inmate at the Telford Unit in New Boston claims prosecutors violated the law during his trial.

The allegations have led a federal judge to ask Bowie County District Judge Ralph Burgess to take another look at the case.

William “Stay Puff” Speer was already serving a life sentence for shooting the father of a friend in Houston when he and Anibel “Bigfoot” Canales Jr. strangled Gary “Dirty” Dickerson to death in his Telford Unit cell on July 11, 1997.

Dickerson’s death was allegedly motiva...