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Anthony Graves Case Raises the Dead ... Again

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That's the title of Jordan Smith's report on another long-running controversial Texas case, in the latest Austin Chronicle.  LINKAdding to the string of dubious edicts delivered from her bench, on May 21 Burleson Co. District Judge Reva Tows­lee-Corbett denied a writ filed by Anthony Graves' defenders, who argue that the charges against their client should be tossed because the state's attempt to retry Graves violates his right to due process and amounts to double jeopardy. Towslee-Corbett's latest ruling reaffirms the position she took last summer, concluding that the testimony of a dead man, Robert Carter, could be used as evidence against Graves at trial ? even though the fact that Carter is dead, executed by the state in 2000, would certainly preclude Graves from exercising his Sixth Amendment right to cross-examine the witnesses against him...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).