AUSTIN -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday rejected an appeal by convicted murderer Colton Pitonyak, serving a 55-year sentence for a 2005 murder, according to KVUE's partners at the ...

AUSTIN -- Federal judges are deciding whether to grant a convicted killer a new trial. Colton Pitonyak's lawyers went before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday morning. The appeals hearing was ...

A man who is serving 55 years in prison for killing and dismembering an acquaintance in 2005 after a night of partying is requesting a new trial after obtaining new information contradicting the state ...

Should Travis County prosecutors have turned over to defense lawyers for Colton Pitonyak, convicted in 2007 of the gruesome murder of Jennifer Cave, evidence that another person claimed responsibility ...

(CN) - Evidence against a University of Texas student convicted of murdering and dismembering his friend was too strong for the trial to have been affected by the late discovery of his accomplice's ...

On Monday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that Colton Pitonyak, convicted in 2007 of the murder of Jennifer Cave, should have the opportunity to argue that the state impermissibly ...

The state’s highest criminal court on Wednesday dismissed without comment the latest appeal from Colton Pitonyak, who is serving 55 years in prison for killing and dismembering an acquaintance, ...