Texas woman on death row for 27 years had her conviction tossed. Will she walk free?

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At just 23 years old, Brittany Holberg was locked up in a north Texas county jail facing murder charges — when a chat with her cellmate, who was secretly an undercover police informant, changed her life forever.
The young sex worker from Amarillo, Texas, had crashed her car while high on crack cocaine in November 1996 and sought refuge from A.B. Towery, an 80-year-old man and existing client.
A heated argument over her drug use quickly devolved into violence, leaving Towery dead with a lamp jammed down his throat. Holberg, who was arrested for felony burglary in February 1997, claimed self-defense.