Anthony Graves has some nerve. How dare he prove his innocence and make the so-called law enforcement officials of the great state of Texas look like the racists fools they are for keeping an innocent man in prison for 18 years, and on death row for 12 of those 18. He should have just kept his mouth shut and gone to the execution chamber for a crime he didn't commit. But he didn't, and now the state is getting even by way of petty, vindictive, bullshit from a petty, vindictive, attorney general.
Petty, vindictive, bullshit. But that's not all. The state is also garnishing Graves' wages to pay for back child support payments. Child support payments he couldn't make because he was in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I repeat. Petty, vindictive, bullshit.
Anthony Graves:
Clarence Brandley:
Seems to be a pattern here.
"To Anthony Graves, the loss of a $250 speaking fee seemed like the final indignity heaped upon him by the state of Texas. Graves spent 18 years behind bars, 12 of them on death row, for a crime that prosecutors now say he didn't do. After he was freed in October, the Texas comptroller's office refused the compensation provided by law for those who are unjustly convicted.
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The state comptroller refused to pay Graves the $80,000 for each year of wrongful imprisonment provided by law because the order dismissing the capital murder charges did not contain the words "actual innocence," as the statute requires. Graves has sued the attorney general, asking for a declaration of actual innocence, but Abbott's office said the law does not allow the attorney general to make such a declaration."
Petty, vindictive, bullshit. But that's not all. The state is also garnishing Graves' wages to pay for back child support payments. Child support payments he couldn't make because he was in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I repeat. Petty, vindictive, bullshit.
"The Attorney General's Office is garnishieeng $175 of the $3,000 monthly salary he earns as an investigator for Texas Defenders Service, an organization that represents death penalty defendants. Graves owes either $5,420 or $5,403, according to the Attorney General's Office, which cited the two child support figures in letters to Graves. A Washington County judge decided in 2002 that Graves owed back child support from 1998 until 2002, even though he was on death row the entire time, according to Graves' attorney Nicole Casarez."
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"Graves isn't the first in Texas to be found innocent of capital murder and forced to pay child support. The wages of Clarence Brandley, cleared in 1997 of the rape-strangulation of 16-year-old girl in Conroe, were garnisheed to pay $25,640 in child support."
Anthony Graves:
Clarence Brandley:
Seems to be a pattern here.
I think Abbott is a very bitter man. When he was 26, while jogging an oak tree fell on him and he suffered a back injury, which is the reason he is in a wheelchair. He sued and received a multi-million dollar settlement. Of course, this was before he was a big booster of tort reform in Texas. He wants everyone, including the unfortunate Mr. Graves, to pay and suffer because he had an injury. One would think he would have some compassion for a man who lost so many years of his life.
Greg Abbott comes across as a petty, vindictive little man, with no compassion and no brain.
So sick of all those teaturds.
Infuriating.
How could any human being do that to another? Answer: They couldn't!