Just after he killed his wife in Arlington, Tareq Alkayyali predicted in a telephone call to a colleague that he would be going to prison for the rest of his life.
Although he did not receive that bleak sentence, Alkayyali will at minimum be confined for about a decade longer than if had he not appealed his murder conviction.
In a retrial compelled by the defendant’s successful appeal connected to a judge’s flawed jury instruction, a state district court jury in Tarrant County on Friday imposed a prison term 17 years longer than did the jury in his first trial…