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Rick Casey on Prosecutorial Misconduct and Anthony Graves

By Steve Hall

"My fantasy: Siegler puts DA on trial," is the title of his column in today's Houston Chronicle. The import was lost on much of the statewide press corps attending the press conference in Brenham on Thursday, but the jaws of some Houston reporters dropped when former Harris County prosecutor Kelly Siegler described another prosecutor of handling a death penalty case "in a way that could best be described as a criminal justice system's nightmare." Siegler was considered among the most aggressive prosecutors in a hang-'em-high Harris County stable. So when she said a district attorney "absolutely" committed prosecutorial misconduct in the capital murder trial of Anthony Graves and called it "the worst I've ever seen," those who knew her felt the impact...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).