FORT WORTH, Texas — Two former Tarrant County prosecutors lied and committed perjury in a death penalty case more than a decade ago, says District Attorney Sharen Wilson in a rare request for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to grant the man a new punishment trial.
Paul David Storey has been on death row since 2008. He was found guilty of fatally shooting a 28-year-old assistant manager of Putt-Putt Golf and Games in Hurst in 2006. Jonas Cherry was shot in the head and legs in a robbery of $150.
The two former prosecutors, Christy Jack and Robert Foran, committed “serious … prosecutorial malfeasance” during Storey’s trial and subsequent appeals, Wilson’s motion says. Jack denies the allegations; Foran couldn’t be reached immediately Tuesday.