Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center

As most of you know by now, former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta was disbarred last week for hiding exculpatory evidence in his Capital Murder prosecution of Anthony Graves .  For those unfamiliar with this sad story, Anthony Graves spent 18 years on Death Row after being prosecuted by Sebesta.  The 5th Circuit overturned his conviction because Sebesta withheld exculpatory evidence and Kelly Siegler was ultimately appointed as the Special Prosecutor to retry Graves.  After reviewing the evidence, Kelly publicly stated that Graves was an innocent man and dismissed the case against him. The story of Anthony's case is well documented.  It was covered by CBS's 48 Hours and was the subject of several articles (see here and here ) by Texas Monthly 's Pamela Colloff .  Sebesta responded to his earned public bashing by creating his own website , where he simultaneously defended himself while blasting Kelly Siegler and insisting upon Anthony Graves' guilt

I was 17 years old and a Junior at Bryan High School in November of 1989.  I was a pretty boring kid, for the most part.  I didn't drink.  I didn't smoke.  I didn't do drugs.  I usually came home long before my curfew.  I guess it was due to that same boringness that my parents signed off on letting me do the biggest adventure of my high school career. On Wednesday, November 8th of 1989, my friends Marshal Crenshaw, Chris Wiseman, Brandon Pillans, Andy Winn, Brandon Crowe and I all borrowed Mrs. Crenshaw's mini-van and were allowed to drive from small-town Bryan, Texas to the big city of Houston to see the Rolling Stones play the Astrodome as part of their Steel Wheels concert tour.  Somehow, even though I was far from a good driver and I had never driven in Houston, I ended up being selected as driver.  Let's just say that was probably where my longstanding hatred of Houston METRO buses was born. Because I was such a terrible driver and had no idea where I was