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November 2010
Report of Anthony's Release written by Lars Åke Augustsson:
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September 2010
Texas Monthly's article and documentary about Anthony online now!
Please click on the following links to read a very interesting article about Anthony's case and to watch a short documentary. It's the 2nd longest piece Texas Monthly has ever done and we are very happy about it!
Click here for the article "Innocence Lost" by Pamely Colloff: Read more...
Click here to watch the short documentary "Reasonable Doubt": Read more...
July 2010
Letter from Anthony
March 2010
Letter from Anthony
February 2010
REPORT FROM CALDWELL, TEXAS, JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2010
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February 10, 2010
Drama likely as Scardino, Siegler face off in retrial
By HARVEY RICE - Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle
Two experienced attorneys, one a former Harris County star prosecutor known for theatrics and the other a skilled defense attorney, will face each other in the retrial of Anthony Graves, whose capital murder conviction was overturned by a federal appeals court.
Kelly Siegler — once a feared Harris County assistant district attorney — has been hired by Washington-Burleson County District attorney Bill Parham as special prosecutor in the Graves case.
Siegler lost a primary race in 2008 to replace her former boss, Chuck Rosenthal, as Harris County district attorney.
She will face Katherine Scardino, a veteran of numerous capital murder trials. In 1997 she won the first acquittal in a Harris County capital murder case in 23 years. Scardino will be assisted by Jimmy Phillips Jr.
Attorney Nicole Casarez, a journalism professor at St. Thomas University whose students found evidence they say shows that Graves is innocent, and Amarillo attorney David Mullin are working on the case for free because they believe in Graves' innocence.
A sense of drama
Siegler, who declined to comment, has faced Scardino and Phillips in previous trials. Scardino said that bringing in Siegler wouldn't change anything. “Kelly Siegler is not going to make the facts any better or any worse,” Scardino said. Scardino's toughness and Siegler's flair for the dramatic — in one trial she gained national attention by dragging a bloody mattress into the courtroom to re-create a stabbing — may lend a sense of drama to the trial. “There may be lots of sparks flying during that trial,” Phillips said.
Graves was sentenced to death in 1994 after being convicted of assisting Robert Earl Carter in the slaying of a grandmother, her daughter and four grandchildren in Somerville. The victims were shot, stabbed, bludgeoned and the house set afire to cover the crime.
A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006 found that prosecutors withheld two statements that could have changed the minds of jurors and elicited false statements from two witnesses during Graves' trial.
Graves was moved from death row to the Burleson County Jail to await a new trial, now scheduled for Oct. 4. Parham said he hired Siegler because he only has three assistant district attorneys, two of them inexperienced. “I have a small office and I need the extra help,” Parham said.
This is not the first time that Siegler has been hired to help a district attorney in a small county. Wharton County District Attorney Josh McCown hired Siegler in 2008 to help prosecute the county's first death penalty trial in 29 years.
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www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6859328.html
November 3, 2009
The Attorney General's office has thrown the case back to the local DA PARHAM MAY TAKE OVER GRAVES PROSECUTION (NOVEMBER 2ND, 2009) District Attorney Bill Parham could be taking over the prosecution of the Anthony Graves capital murder case. Former District Attorney Renee Mueller had asked to be recused from the case and the state attorney general’s office appointed a special prosecutor.
Patrick Batchelor, the special prosecutor, has become too ill from complications of diabetes to continue so he is asking to be withdrawn from the case. The Texas Attorney General’s office is asking that Parham’s to take over. District Court Judge Reva Towslee-Corbett must still rule on the Attorney General’s office motion to withdraw. Parham says his office is also waiting on the ruling, as well, and says that it may take more than a year for the case to go to trial again.
Graves’ 1994 conviction for murdering six Somerville family members in August of 1992, was overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct. The attorney general’s office says that former District Attorney Charles Sebesta and his assistants in the case are no longer working in the office, so the current District Attorney’s office can take over.
Source : www.kwhi.com
October 21, 2009
The prosecutor Batchelor, is resigned for health reasons. The judge has appointed a new prosecutor from the Attorney General's office as lead and special prosecutor, LANCE KUTNICK
October 1st, 2009
The prosecutor's new idea ... In April 2009, Keith Picket and his dogs came in Anthony's cell to scent Anthony's clothes then the dogs have scented the old clothes of the victims. The scent lineups was positive... According to the the State, this dog is the best and never made mistakes. It's amazing after 17 years - and evidences found in a burned-out house... In 2007, the DNA test results were inconclusive- the DNA was too contaminated to yield results...