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What ‘Really’ Happened in the Anthony Graves Case? Was Evidence Favorable to Graves Withheld by Prosecutors?
Retired District Attorney Charles Sebesta Responds and Provides Some Answers

You have probably read or heard where a capital murder case that I tried in 1994 while serving as District Attorney for Texas’ 21st Judicial District involving Anthony Charles Graves was reversed by the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, because evidence that the Court said ‘could’ have been favorable to the defendant was “intentionally” withheld by the prosecution.
The court’s action, which occurred in 2006, twelve years after the jury’s verdict, overturned the findings of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals which had upheld the conviction on two separate occasions and rejected the recommendations of a Federal Magistrate and a Federal District Judge who had found that the issue the Fifth Circuit used to reverse the case wasn’t even relevant.
Several months after that ‘reversal’ a Houston attorney by the name of Robert S. Bennett not only filed a complaint against me with the State Bar of Texas alleging ‘Prosecutorial Misconduct,’ but he went to great extremes ‘lobbying’ and attempting to use both ‘political’ and ‘media’ pressure on the State Bar in an effort to have them levy some type of administrative ‘sanctions’ against me.
In accordance with State Bar protocol, I responded ‘in writing’ to Bennett’s allegations and what follows is a copy of the ‘narrative’ response filed with the Grievance Committee in 2007: >>readmore

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