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First week in November

By cdw

For the first week in November html/pdf: Leading off this week is Anthony Graves.  As DPIC notes “Anthony Graves  was released from a Texas  prison on October 27 after Washington-Burleson County District Attorney Bill Parham filed a motion to dismiss all charges that had resulted in Graves being sent to death row 16 years ago. Graves was convicted in 1994 of assisting Robert Carter in multiple murders in 1992. There was no physical evidence linking Graves to the crime, and his conviction relied primarily on Carter?s testimony that Graves was his accomplice. Two weeks before Carter was scheduled to be executed in 2000, he provided a statement saying he lied about Graves?s involvement in the crime. He repeated that statement minutes before his execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 03, 2010 (boomark / email).