Entries tagged with “Charles Sebesta”
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Jan 18, 2024
Discussions with DPIC Podcast: Life After Death Row with Anthony Graves
In this month’s episode of Discussions with DPIC, Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with former death-sentenced prisoner Anthony Graves. Exonerated from Texas’ death row in 2010, Mr. Graves has since become an advocate for criminal justice reform, creating the Anthony Graves Foundation, working with the ACLU and Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and testifying before the U.S. Senate on prison conditions. Mr. Graves has also authored an autobiography titled Infinite…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Official Misconduct
,New Voices
,Nov 02, 2010
Texas Prosecutors Accuse Former District Attorney of Egregious Misconduct in Innocence Case
At a recent press conference in Texas, prosecutors accused former district attorney Charles Sebesta of hiding and tampering with evidence, and of threatening witnesses in order to convict Anthony Graves in 1994. Graves was recently exonerated from death row and freed after 18 years of confinement for a crime he did not…