But Justice Friedmann responded that the evidence had been sufficient to support the defendants' arson convictions at a trial in June.

Two arson convictions have been made to date.

The brothers, who were tried as adults, had faced sentences of 22 years to life for the second-degree murder convictions and 30-year sentences for the arson conviction.

Knapp had been serving a three-year sentence for an arson conviction in Marion County.

One involved a fire at the Stouffer's Inn in Harrison in 1980 in which 26 people died, but a judge threw out an arson conviction on the ground that the case had not been proved.

Connor's past includes an arson conviction, as well as other crimes.

The money was awarded stemming from arson convictions in which the Klan burned down the historic black church in 1995.

In 2012 Texas began a review of arson convictions.

The brothers also face sentences of 30 years in prison for the arson conviction.

Mr. Barger, who helped start the Hell's Angels in 1957, was released from prison in 1992 after serving almost five years on Federal firearms, explosives and arson convictions.