I think Fox got some of their facts wrong. The prisoner was not PREVENTED from contacting his embassy. He never ASKED to contact the embassy. The embassy issue did not come up until the appeals.
Agreed. The issue before the court was that the murderer claimed that his conviction was invalid because he was not informed of his Vienna Convention rights.
Correct. He didn’t ask to speak to his Embassy because he didn’t want to alert authorities to the fact he was here illegally. In Texas, we call that, Your Problem.