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Graves' Attorney Responds to Perry "System Works Well' Comment

By Steve Hall

Elliott Blackburn posts, "Update: Graves attorney reacts to Perry's comments on case in Lubbock," at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Anthony Graves? incensed co-counsel called the governor?s description of the freed death row inmate?s case ?ludicrous? and ?idiotic? Monday, three days after Gov. Rick Perry?s campaign stop in Lubbock. ?I mean, I just, I can?t breathe I get so angry at stupid people who will sit back and allow this kind of system to maintain itself in our state,? Katherine Scardino said during a lunch-hour interview. ?I love Texas. I think it?s a wonderful place to live, but the things that our politicians say and do are just beyond me." Perry focused on the ultimate freedom of Graves, who spent 18 years in Texas prisons and a dozen of those on Death Row for the murder of a family of six, in answering a question about how the Texas legal system should change in light of Graves? case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 02, 2010 (boomark / email).