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How Siegler Unmade Case

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Harvey Rice's report in today's Houston Chronicle.  It's subtitled, "She and a colleague independently concluded that Anthony Graves was no killer." Veteran prosecutor Kelly Siegler dreaded her meeting with the family of a grandmother and five children savagely slain nearly two decades ago. The news she was bringing them would not be welcome. "I went by myself to tell them that things weren't going according to plan, that (the original prosecutor) had done some things, that it wasn't looking good," Siegler said, recalling her Oct. 15 meeting at a gathering of the Davis family in Houston. "I drove out there, and I tried to figure out ahead of time how to explain, knowing that for 18 years they thought this man had killed their mother and their babies...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).