HOUSTON -- A teenager serving life in prison for capital murder will be getting a new trial for the crime he committed at 15 years old.
The family of Litrey Turner was called into a downtown Houston law office Saturday afternoon to get the good news.
According to his laywer, Eric Davis, Turner didn't shoot the 55-year-old convenience store clerk in Dickinson in 2006. Davis says the actual gunman got 40 years in prison.
The court of appeals agreed Turner should get a new trial because a jury was never able to consider the lesser charge of robbery.
Hattie Turner, Litrey's grandmother, hopes that he will be able to come home one day.
"There's nothing that you can do," she said."You're helpless, so I had to lean on God and believe it or not, he worked it out"
Turner, who was tried as an adult, will not find out about his appeal and the possibility of a new trial until Monday when his lawyer can call the prison.
