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Innocence Lost

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Pamela Colloff's 14,000 word examination of the case of Anthony Graves, noted yesterday.  It's subtitled, "Since August 23, 1992, Anthony Graves has been behind bars for the gruesome murder of a family in Somerville. There was no clear motive, no physical evidence connecting him to the crime, and the only witness against him recanted, declaring again and again before his death, in 2000, that Graves didn?t do it. If he didn?t, the truth will come out. Won?t it?"  Here's a small excerpt from this must-read:Graves, who had moved back to Brenham from Austin that spring after getting laid off from an assembly line job at Dell, was picked up before noon at his mother?s apartment and brought to the Brenham police station in handcuffs...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).