Monday, October 13, 2014

To "Instruct" the witness...

Innocence Project associate Walter Reaves won Ed Graf a new trial for capital murder
by challenging and suppressing "junk science" used in testimony to obtain a 1986 conviction 
WACO - District Judge Matt Johnson sent jurors to lunch when a lawyer for accused capital murderer Ed Graf  made vigorous and incessant objections to hearsay testimony about the defendant's state of mind.

Graf is standing trial for the second time for the alleged murder for renumeration by arson of his two stepsons, Jason, 8, and Joby, 9, in a fire that engulfed a back yard tool shed in the flames of a gasoline explosion. Convicted of capital murder, he served 25 years in the penitentiary before Walter Reaves, a lawyer for the Innocence Project, won a new trial for him in an appeal that objected to testimony based on "junk science," since discredited. All such former testimony about the fire and its cause has been suppressed. No previous testimony may be allowed, and expert witnesses have no physical evidence to investigate because the debris of the fire was buried in a landfill within days after the fire, which occurred on August 26, 1986.
To read more, follow this link:  

http://radiolegendary.com/2014/10/instruct-the-witness/



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