Posted on · Armstrong, 23, arrived at the Garza West Unit in Beeville on Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He was convicted of shooting his parents to death in Houston when he was a teenager in 2016.
Posted on · A new defense attorney for the 23-year-old Armstrong, who was a teenager at the time of his parents' deaths, claimed in a motion for a new trial that he should have been tried as a juvenile and that prosecutors should have provided previous defense attorneys with information that questioned the credibility of a key witness.
Posted on · On Thursday's show: After two mistrials, a jury has found AJ Armstrong guilty of killing his parents. Separately, Armstrong is suing HPD, alleging police planted evidence to force a false conviction. We learn the latest on the Armstrong saga.
Posted on · The verdict came after 11 days of witness testimony. The high-profile case had dragged on for years after two previous juries could not reach a consensus on a verdict in 2019 and 2022.
Posted on · The federal lawsuit accuses HPD officers of planting evidence just days before Armstrong's third trial was set to begin in June. That evidence would eventually become a focal point of Armstrong's third trial.
Posted on · During his opening statement, Harris County Assistant District Attorney John Jordan confirmed the delay was due to new blood evidence that had come to light.