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An Update on Anthony Graves

By Steve Hall

Today's Houston Chronicle carries Harvey Rice's report, "Ex-DA turns to court of public opinion."The news item on KBTX (Channel 3) in Bryan-College Station was one indignity too many for former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta. The television report about a death penalty case that has dogged Sebesta for nearly a decade prompted him to take an unusual step: paying $2,561 to defend himself in a 5,000-word double-page advertisement published recently in two Burleson County newspapers. Sebesta, former district attorney for Burleson and Washington counties, has suffered criticism for his handling of a 1994 capital murder trial that ended in a death sentence for Anthony Graves of Brenham. The criticism began in 2000 after co-defendant Robert Carter, whose testimony convicted Graves, said moments before his execution: ?Anthony Graves had nothing to do with it...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 27, 2009 (boomark / email).