An appeals court in Fort Worth has upheld the capital murder conviction and life prison term for one of the men involved in the 2018 murder of a Fort Worth police officer.
Timothy Huff was a member of a gang that was involved in a series of violent robberies. Police had staked out a business during one of the holdups and surrounded the men as they left.
While Huff surrendered, another of the gang shot and killed Fort Worth police officer Garrett Hull.
Huff was found accountable under the Texas "Law of Parties," which allows a person to be criminally responsible for the actions of someone else when there was a conspiracy to commit one crime and another felony occurs.
Huff was convicted of capital murder but a jury declined to impose the death penalty in his 2022 trial. That trial had to be delayed because Huff swallowed razor blades in a suicide attempt.
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