Death row inmate in 2009 Austin murder granted hearing on DNA, cellphone data

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man on death row for the gruesome 2009 murder of a 17-year-old girl in east Austin has been granted a hearing in Travis County, according to Court of Criminal Appeals order released Wednesday.
Areli Carbajal Escobar, 38, is currently incarcerated in the Polunsky Unit in East Texas near Lake Livingston, where he has been since he was sentenced to death by a Travis County jury in 2011. His initial post-conviction appeal was in May 2013. In February of this year, E