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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Broiling in prison

AUSTIN, Texas — Filmmaker Richard Linklater worries that the subject of his 2011 movie "Bernie" may die in the triple-digit temperatures of a Texas prison cell. Sixty-five-year-old Bernhardt Tiede II, convicted of the 1996 murder of his wealthy elderly companion, wants a cooler cell or release to his sister's house near Dallas.

Read the complaint here.

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