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Gov. Abbott said Daniel Perry was railroaded by a liberal prosecutor when he was convicted of the murder of 28-year-old Garrett Foster. Since then, Perry's trail of shockingly racist texts and online posts have been made public.
Daniel Perry, a US army sergeant stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, had been found guilty of murder in a 2020 shooting.
Perry’s trial garnered national attention after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced a plan to pardon him. Perry was sentenced to 25 years Wednesday.
A U.S. Army sergeant plans to appeal his 25-year prison sentence for fatally shooting an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas, and will cooperate with efforts by the state's Republican governor to issue a pardon, his attorney said Wednesday.
Perry remains subject to a possible pardon by Gov. Greg Abbott following Judge Clifford Brown's sentencing.