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An Update on Anthony Graves

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Anthony Graves continues to await a new trial, after his conviction and death sentence were overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct more than two years ago.  In today's Houston Chronicle, Harvey Rice reports, "Judge to allow dead witness's testimony." A Burleson County district judge ruled Wednesday that the transcribed testimony of a dead witness will be allowed in the retrial of Anthony Graves, whose capital murder conviction was overturned for prosecutorial misconduct. The ruling by state District Judge Reva Towslee-Corbett allows transcripts of the 1994 testimony by co-defendant Robert Carter to be used in Graves' July 7 trial. Carter and Graves were convicted in separate trials in the 1992 slaying of a woman, her daughter and her four grandchildren in Somerville...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 22, 2008 (boomark / email).