Lawyers for the woman convicted in connection with the 2005 murder of Jennifer Cave appeared in a Travis County courtroom Wednesday morning, demanding a new trial.

After a conviction and a failed appeal, Laura Hall's attorney and family still say she is innocent.

"It just shows what we've always known, prosecutors will do anything they can to win, no matter who they take down or how they do it," Hall's mother, Carol said.

Hall's lawyer, Kenneth Mahaffey said the way the state did it was riddled with errors.

He said Hall's appeal should have been granted last year because the trial judge shouldn't have allowed the testimony of Colton Pitonyak's neighbor, whose credibility Mahaffey says is questionable.

Mahaffey declined comment Wednesday but state attorney Bryan Case did have something to say.

"I think those errors were very insignificant," he said. "Because Case says the jury convicted Hall based on other overwhelming evidence."

Laura Hall is serving a five-year sentence.

Hall was convicted of helping convicted murderer Colton Pitonyak dismember Cave's body and flee with him to Mexico in August, 2005.

Cave, 21, was found shot, stabbed and partially dismembered in Pitonyak's West Campus apartment.

Hall’s lawyer said his client was convicted after the state made a series of errors.

  To view our videos, you need to
enable JavaScript. Learn how.
install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now.

Then come back here and refresh the page.

That neighbor had testified that Hall participated in the dismemberment of Cave’s body. But, it was information the neighbor had never mentioned during Pitonyak’s trial.

Both families of Cave and Hall were in attendance, and for both it was an emotional time.

“We know our daughter’s innocent,” Laura Hall’s father, Loren Hall, said. “We knew she was innocent from the beginning, and hopefully this court will do the right thing and she’ll be acquitted.”

Jennifer Cave’s mother, Sharon Cave, said she just wants justice.

“If we have to go through another trial, we will do it the same way we have gone through the previous trials,” she said. “We will hold our heads high and we will know that ultimately justice is done.”

The Texas Court of Appeals has taken the case under consideration and should have a judgment within six months.

Pitonyak is serving a 55-year sentence for Cave’s murder.

He is eligible for parole after serving half of that sentence.