Welcome to Murder Minute. On today's episode, Typhoid Mary, but first your true crime headlines.

In Utah, the double murder conviction of death row inmate

Vaughn Lester Taylor has been vacated due to ineffective counsel at his trial nearly 30 years ago.

Three days before Christmas in 1990, Taylor and another man, Edward Delly, broke into a vacant cabin in the mountains

east of Salt Lake City and terrorized a family of five, killing two members of the Teed family, and injuring a third.

In 1991, Taylor accepted a plea deal, under which he pled guilty to two counts of murder in exchange for eight lesser charges against him being dropped.

The deal did not take the death penalty off the table and Taylor was sentenced to death.

Delhi, his co-conspirator, did not accept a deal and chose to go to trial.

A jury convicted him of second-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

In the 37-page decision, US District Judge Tina Campbell wrote that Taylor's attorney

Elliot Levine offered inexcusably uninformed advice to his client,

which exposed him to the possibility of execution.

Levine, whose Utah State Bar certification is currently suspended, failed to hire or

consult experts for Taylor's death penalty trial, resulting in what the court determined

was a miscarriage of justice.

One of the two men convicted of the 1993 murder of James Jordan, father of NBA legend Michael Jordan, is being

considered for parole. James Jordan was shot and killed as he slept in his car at a North Carolina rest stop.

His body was dumped off a bridge and recovered 11 days later, and two men were convicted of first-degree murder and armed robbery for the crime.

Each of them received a life sentence.

One of those men, Larry Demery, is now being considered for parole as part of North Carolina's mutual agreement

parole program, which the State's Department of Public Health describes as a scholastic and vocational program, quote,

designed to prepare selected inmates for release through structured activities.

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