Leland Williams will perhaps one day see the light of day outside prison and begin to atone, one of his defense attorneys suggested on Tuesday to a jury as his punishment trial began.
Williams, who shot a Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office deputy at a credit union in Fort Worth, is not a lost cause and does not deserve to have his life thrown away, the attorney, Kelly Meador, told the jury.
The panel in the 371st District Court will hear from Williams and learn about what he was going through on the day in November 2023 that he shot Deputy Brent Brown, Meador said in the defense’s opening statement…