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Exoneree Anthony Graves recounts 18½ years and urges multidisciplinary defense teams
Summary
Anthony Graves, wrongfully convicted and exonerated in 2010, recounted his time on death row at a Travis County Gideon Day event and called for funded peer navigators, social workers, investigators and reentry services to make the Gideon right to counsel effective.
Anthony Graves, who was wrongfully convicted and spent 18½ years in prison before his 2010 exoneration, told attendees at a Travis County Gideon Day event that a lawyer cannot secure justice alone and called for systems that support the whole person.
Graves recounted conditions on death row and the consequences of a system that "failed to bring the full truth into the room," describing missing witnesses, incomplete investigation and life histories flattened into…
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