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Legislature should limit immunity for sleazebag prosecutors like Charles Sebesta

From the Houston Chronicle: A day after prosecutors dismissed the capital murder charges that sent Anthony Graves to death row in 1994, they accused the district attorney who convicted him of prosecutorial misconduct.?Charles Sebesta handled this case in a way that could best be described as a criminal justice system?s nightmare,? Kelly Siegler declared. ?It?s a travesty, what happened in Anthony Graves? trial.? Graves, now 45, was released from jail Wednesday after spending 18 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, according to Bill Parham, the current DA for Washington and Burleson counties. Parham, Siegler and two investigators called a Thursday news conference at which they accused the former district attorney of hiding evidence and threatening witnesses...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).