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Anthony Graves Seeks Compensation for Wrongful Incarceration

By Steve Hall

Harvey Rice writes, "Innocent man seeks his due from state," for today's Houston Chronicle. Attorneys for a Somerville man freed last month after spending more than a decade on death row will return to court next week to take the first step toward claiming the $1.4 million they say he's due for 18 years of wrongful imprisonment. Anthony Graves will ask the Texas Comptroller's Office for compensation provided for under the Tim Cole Act, enacted last year and named for an imprisoned Fort Worth man posthumously exonerated of committing a rape. Burleson County District Attorney Bill Parham and special prosecutor Kelly Siegler have said Graves is innocent of the 1992 murders of five people. Graves, 45, kept track of every day of his 18 years and two months imprisonment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).