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Anthony Graves' Quest for Compensation

By Steve Hall

"State comptroller very inconsistent on compensation," is the title of Lisa Falkenberg's Houston Chronicle column.  It appeared in Thursday's edition. How the state comptroller could deny Anthony Graves' compensation, seemingly on a technicality, for the 18 years he spent wrongly imprisoned has outraged some and baffled nearly everybody.After all, Texas' compensation law seems tailor-made for a guy like Graves, who was finally freed after nearly two decades behind bars including 12 years on death row, when it became clear he was innocent in the savage Somerville murders of a grandmother and five children.A federal appeals court overturned his case, and years later Kelly Siegler, the special prosecutor who was supposed to retry it, boldly acknowledged there wasn't one shred of evidence linking Graves to the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 28, 2011 (boomark / email).