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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2744602" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>After a thorough reexamination of the case, he and the three people who flanked him that morningSiegler; the district attorneys investigator, Otto Hanak; and Texas Ranger Andres de la Garzahad all come to the same conclusion. Theres not a single thing that says Anthony Graves was involved in this case, Parham said. There is nothing. When Sieglers turn came to address reporters, she placed the blame for Gravess wrongful conviction squarely on former DA Charles Sebesta. Its a prosecutors responsibility to never fabricate evidence or manipulate witnesses or take advantage of victims, she said. And unfortunately, what happened in this case is all of those things. Gravess trial, she said, had been a travesty.</p><p></p><p>To anyone familiar with Gravess odyssey through the criminal justice system, the prosecutions about-face was a staggering reversal. During Sebestas 25-year tenure as district attorneyat one time he oversaw four contiguous counties between Houston and Austinhe was arguably the regions most powerful figure, and he had relentlessly pursued Graves, even though the case, as he had once conceded, was not a slam dunk. When Gravess conviction was reversed, Sebesta had staked his legacy on the case. He took two polygraph exams in an attempt to prove that he had disclosed exculpatory evidence to the defense, and he spent thousands of dollars to run full-page ads in two local newspapers that detailed why, in his estimation, Graves was a murderer. Sieglers withering assessment that morning (Charles Sebesta handled this case in a way that would best be described as a criminal justice systems nightmare) reframed the narrative: It was Sebesta, not Graves, who had done wrong. Her reputation as a fierce advocate of victims families made her unequivocal statements to reporters all the more credible; she could hardly be considered soft on crime or apt to be sympathetic to a man she had any reason to believe had actually stabbed four children to death.</p><p></p><p>That Sieglerknown for having been one of the most aggressive prosecutors in Harris County, which has sent more people to the death chamber than any other county in the nationhad backed away from a capital murder case had the entire Houston defense bar talking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2744602, member: 7629"] After a thorough reexamination of the case, he and the three people who flanked him that morningSiegler; the district attorneys investigator, Otto Hanak; and Texas Ranger Andres de la Garzahad all come to the same conclusion. Theres not a single thing that says Anthony Graves was involved in this case, Parham said. There is nothing. When Sieglers turn came to address reporters, she placed the blame for Gravess wrongful conviction squarely on former DA Charles Sebesta. Its a prosecutors responsibility to never fabricate evidence or manipulate witnesses or take advantage of victims, she said. And unfortunately, what happened in this case is all of those things. Gravess trial, she said, had been a travesty. To anyone familiar with Gravess odyssey through the criminal justice system, the prosecutions about-face was a staggering reversal. During Sebestas 25-year tenure as district attorneyat one time he oversaw four contiguous counties between Houston and Austinhe was arguably the regions most powerful figure, and he had relentlessly pursued Graves, even though the case, as he had once conceded, was not a slam dunk. When Gravess conviction was reversed, Sebesta had staked his legacy on the case. He took two polygraph exams in an attempt to prove that he had disclosed exculpatory evidence to the defense, and he spent thousands of dollars to run full-page ads in two local newspapers that detailed why, in his estimation, Graves was a murderer. Sieglers withering assessment that morning (Charles Sebesta handled this case in a way that would best be described as a criminal justice systems nightmare) reframed the narrative: It was Sebesta, not Graves, who had done wrong. Her reputation as a fierce advocate of victims families made her unequivocal statements to reporters all the more credible; she could hardly be considered soft on crime or apt to be sympathetic to a man she had any reason to believe had actually stabbed four children to death. That Sieglerknown for having been one of the most aggressive prosecutors in Harris County, which has sent more people to the death chamber than any other county in the nationhad backed away from a capital murder case had the entire Houston defense bar talking. [/QUOTE]
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