Dan Rizzo and the Alfred Dewayne Brown Case

It's not easy being Dan Rizzo these days. After retiring from the Harris County District Attorney's Office some time during the Pat Lykos Administration, he probably thought that he put all of the uncertainty and acrimony of being a prosecutor behind him. While most prosecutors who leave the Office make some effort to keep in touch with one another, he kind of faded into oblivion. He hadn't been gone all too long before he found himself in the crosshairs of the Houston Chronicle 's Lisa Falkenberg, who was working on a story about the potential abuses of the Grand Jury system. Initially, the story Falkenberg was working on dealt with how Rizzo and a member of the Grand Jury had used the Grand Jury's power to intimidate a potential alibi witness on a capital murder case. It just so happened that the case where that occurred was the State of Texas vs. Alfred Dewayne Brown , which Rizzo not only presented to the Grand Jury, but also prosecuted at trial. T