The State Bar of Texas is pursuing a disciplinary action against a former Harris County assistant district attorney who allegedly struck deals with three jailhouse informants by offering leniency in exchange for testimony in a capital murder trial without notifying the defense.

The Bar's Commission for Lawyer Discipline's Sept. 25 petition, filed in a Harris County district court, alleges that Elizabeth A. Exley agreed to make favorable recommendations in the sentencing of two jailhouse informants and the parole hearing of a third if they testified against Edward George McGregor.

Exley served as a Fort Bend County special prosecutor in McGregor's 2010 capital murder trial in which he was accused of murdering Kim Wildman in 1990. Before the trial, McGregor's defense counsel had made a pretrial request for all exculpatory evidence, including any consideration given to witnesses in exchange for their testimony.

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