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Lisa Falkenberg on the Graves Judicial Connections

By Steve Hall

Her column in today's Houston Chronicle is, "Maybe judge is just dad's girl."  It's must-read, shing a light on small town connections.  Here are extended excerpt: Maybe it has nothing to do with the judge being a Republican. Maybe it has nothing to do with the political climate at all.Maybe there's another reason the prosecutor in Anthony Graves' case felt he couldn't get the judge to sign an order ensuring Graves be compensated for the 18 years he spent behind bars for a crime he didn't commit.Maybe it's because the judge, Reva Towslee-Corbett, is her father's daughter.Graves, whose capital murder conviction was overturned by a federal appeals court in 2006, recently was denied compensation for his wrongful conviction by the state comptroller's office...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).