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Innocence Found

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Pamela Colloff's latest Texas Monthly article ---- tracing Anthony Graves' exoneration.  Her October 2010 Texas Monthly profile, "Innocence Lost," brought national exposure to the case at a critical time. Here's an excerpt from the beginning of "Innocence Found." The 6,640th day of Anthony Graves?s incarceration?October 27, 2010?began like any other. He awoke at five o?clock in the morning to the sound of the food cart rattling down the hall of the Burleson County jail, where a guard slid his breakfast tray through a slot in his cell door. At seven o?clock, the overhead fluorescent lights came on, illuminating the windowless cell where he had lived in solitary confinement for the past four years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 03, 2010 (boomark / email).