Great (and persistent) work by Waco lawyer, Walter Reaves!
Waco Tribune-Herald By CINDY V. CULP cculp@wacotrib.com
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday that a Hewitt man convicted of burning his two sons alive in a backyard storage shed in 1986 deserves a new trial.
The appellate court stopped short of finding Ed Graf innocent of the crime. But in the opinion, the justices agreed that “the false testimony of arson investigators violated his right to due process.”
Graf’s attorney, Walter M. Reaves Jr. of Waco, has sought to overturn Graf’s conviction on the basis that arson testimony given by experts at his trial was based on flawed investigative methods that scientists now know to be false.
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