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We Stand Witness To A Monstrous Wrong

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Leonard Pitts compares the Anthony Graves case to a a TV western:There's been a vicious killing. Everybody knows who did it -- or thinks they know -- and the posse wants to string the varmint up. No need for the bother of a trial. The crime was outrageous, people are furious. So get the rope, find a tree. Anthony Graves was arrested 18 years ago for the brutal murder of a woman, her 16-year-old daughter and four children. After the beating and shooting, the house was set ablaze. As Pitts writes in his column, of course placed on the last page of the newspaper:No physical evidence linked Graves to the crime. He had no motive to butcher six strangers. Three witnesses placed him at home at the time of the murders. Graves was convicted and sentenced to death on the testimony of Robert Carter, the father of one of the victims...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).