Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 3, 2011

The State of Texas stole eighteen years from , Anthony Graves who was sentenced to death for a murder he didn?t commit. A federal appeals court overturned his conviction in 2006, but Graves had to wait four more years while the state tried to convict him again.

When he was finally released in 2010, the judge who issued the
order neglected to use the phrase ?actual innocence?; on the basis of this self-serving technicality, the State of Texas refused to pay Graves the $1.4 million settlement to which he was entitled.

For all it has done to him, the State is not content to leave Graves alone: The Attorney General?s Office is pilfering $175 from the $3,000 monthly salary he earns at a part-time job. While he was unjustly imprisoned, Graves was hit with a child support order he had no means of paying.

?The state of Texas tried to kill me for something I didn?t do and now they are trying to get child support out of me,? complained Graves, whose suffering illustrates that there are few criminals more vile or vicious than many of the people who find jobs as prosecutors.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.