Showing posts with label Anthony Graves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anthony Graves. Show all posts
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Texas Voices v. small towns; CLEAT v. Governor, Lawyers v. client, and other stories

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Here are a few short tidbits while your correspondent's attention is focused elsewhere: Texas Voices may litigate to overturn illegal ...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

Charles Sebesta disbarred!

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BREAKING : Charles Sebesta, the prosecutor who withheld exculpatory evidence at Anthony Graves' capital murder trial, has been disbarred...
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Monday, July 07, 2014

State bar: 'Just cause' to think prosecutor Charles Sebesta commited misconduct

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Charles Sebesta, the former Burleson County District Attorney who withheld evidence in Anthony Graves' 1994 capital murder case, may fin...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Graves: State bar should discipline Charles Sebesta

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Now that the Texas Legislature has extended the statute of limitations for the state bar to discipline prosecutors, exoneree Anthony Graves ...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Isolation, mental illness, and a call for legislative oversight of Texas ad seg

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Check out a pair of op eds in the Houston Chronicle published today about solitary confinement from a former Texas Department of Justice gen...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Dogs that didn't bark: Open prosecutor files, reduced drug penalties

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In the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee on Tuesday night, the spirit of the room was rather odd when Rep. Joe Moody presented hi...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Bills would bolster Great Writ for the 21st century, expose prosecutor misconduct

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The Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee yesterday tackled a full plate of issues . I was there on behalf of the Innocence Project of Tex...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Why is the Legislature taking up prosecutor accountability? Two theories

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Grits had mentioned the other day that, on Tuesday, the Senate Criminal Justice Committee will take up Chairman John Whitmire's SB 825...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Whitmire: End secret state bar sanctions for withholding exculpatory evidence

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State Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire filed legislation yesterday - SB 825 - that would disallow the state bar fro...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Anthony Graves: 'Solitary confinement dehumanizes us all,' creates 'culture of madness'

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According to the New York Times , Texas exoneree Anthony Graves gave the most compelling testimony last week at a Congressional hearing on s...
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

48 Hours Mystery to feature Anthony Graves' story

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Via the Texas Tribune , we learn that CBS News' 48 Hours Mystery will feature a segment on Anthony Graves' false conviction tonight....
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Monday, October 10, 2011

What can the Texas Legislature do to reduce prosecutorial misconduct?

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In the wake of Michael Morton's recent DNA exoneration in Williamson County - in which prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence for mor...
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Earning it the hard way

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The Texas Comptroller approved compensation to Anthony Graves for his false conviction under provisions in the new HB 417 just passed by t...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

News flash: New York Times gets it wrong on exoneree compensation bill

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For me, the big innocence news at the capitol today was that the eyewitness ID legislation ( HB 215 ) got a hearing in the Senate Criminal J...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Eliminate 'judge-made' immunity for prosecutor misconduct

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On Monday, the Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee heard CSHB 2641 by Rep. Lon Burnam which would establish liability f...
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Monday, May 02, 2011

Roundup: The 'Duty to Correct' and other stories

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Here are a few stories I noticed over the weekend that deserve Grits readers' attention: Prison workers fired for relations with inmat...
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Saturday, April 30, 2011

State won't compensate Anthony Graves for innocence; instead garnishes his paycheck

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Anthony Graves seemingly can't win for losing. Exonerated and freed 18 years after his capital murder conviction, the state Comptroller ...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

'Grave Injustice'

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The TV show 48-Hours Mystery on CBS last night ran an hour-long feature on Anthony Graves' dramatic exoneration after an heartbreaking ...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Charles Sebesta's career as a police trainer

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Working off a lead she garnered from the comments of a Grits post, she informs me via email, Houston Chronicle columnist Lisa Falkenberg off...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Who wants to help Anthony Graves get compensation?

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Lisa Falkenberg at the Houston Chronicle wonders why Comptroller Susan Combs won't give compensation to Anthony Graves , noting that, ...
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