article_snippet.sent: Daniel Morcombe's killer could get out of prison early due to a email to Queensland's top judge from a child protection worker that a 'smiley face'.
article_snippet.sent: Lawyers for Brett Peter Cowan, who was convicted for the murder of 13-year-old schoolboy Daniel Morcombe in 2014, will file an application to have Chief Justice Tim Carmody disqualified from hearing Chief Justice Tim Carmody appeal, citing a potential bias in the case.
article_snippet.sent: Brett Peter Cowan received a life sentence for murdering, indecently dealing and dumping the Sunshine Coast teenager's body in 2003.
article_snippet.sent: Daniel Morcombe killer Brett Peter Cowan mugshot, four months into their son prison sentence in July this year .
article_snippet.sent: Brett Peter Cowan's sentence includes a non-parole period of 20 years.
article_snippet.sent: When Daniel Morcombe's was convicted, Brett Peter Cowan was found guilty of murder, indecent treatment of a child and interfering with a corpse, after abusing and killing Daniel in an abandoned house after abducting the teen from a Sunshine Coast bus stop.
article_snippet.sent: A covert police operation culminated in Brett Peter Cowan's arrest in August 2011, after Brett Peter Cowan unknowingly confessed to Daniel's murder on camera to an undercover detective.
article_snippet.sent: The high fences and tough security that keeps high-profile inmates, such as Brett Peter Cowan, locked behind the Wolston Correctional Centre .
article_snippet.sent: How Brett Peter Cowan looked - a frail and gaunt figure - before Brett Peter Cowan was locked away in Wolston Correctional Centre .
article_snippet.sent: Brett Peter Cowan's defence will now claim that showing Brett Peter Cowan video confession was illegal, with Brett Peter Cowan's lawyer arguing 'showing his video confession was illegal, with Cowan's lawyer arguing 'they should never have been played to the jury' should never have been played to the jury'.
highlights_snippet.sent: Daniel Morcombe's killer could be freed early because of judge's 'bias'
  Lawyer's for Brett Peter Cowan demand chief justice removed from appeal .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Brett Peter Cowan was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in March last year .