Perry to help compensate man exonerated of murder
HOUSTON
The Texas Comptroller's Office had denied compensation to
Anthony Graves, even though prosecutors declared him innocent of
the murder for which he served 18 years in prison.
Perry told the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday that Graves'
conviction had been a "great miscarriage of justice" and pledged
to help him obtain the compensation denied him.
Graves spent nearly half his adult life behind bars before
prosecutors determined last October that he wasn't involved in the
1992 slayings of six members of a family in Burleson County, about
100 miles northwest of Houston.
