Conrad Robert Murray/Robert Earl Carter/Anthony Graves
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There has been speculation over the last 5 years that Conrad Murray is someone by the name of Robert Earl Carter - there was even information from someone that had proof that Robert Earl Carter changed his name on his drivers license to Conrad Murray - but I never saw an application or drivers license with the name change so for me there was no 'proof' so I did some searching.<br /><br />As most of you probably know there was a Robert Earl Carter in Texas that was executed back in 2000. As I was reading through the below article, I decided to read up on the other person that Robert Earl Carter identified as the real killer.<br /><br />http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/carter637.htm<br /><br />
<br /><br />http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-sets-man-free-from-death-row-1619337.php<br /><br />Texas sets man free from death row<br />Prisoner ordered free from Texas' death row<br /><br />BRIAN ROGERS and CINDY GEORGE<br /><br />, Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle<br /><br /> Published 05:30 a.m., Wednesday, October 27, 2010<br /><br />After 18 years of incarceration and countless protestations of innocence, Anthony Graves finally got a nod of approval from the one person who mattered Wednesday and at last returned home — free from charges that he participated in the butchery of a family in Somerville he did not know and free of the possibility that he would have to answer for them with his life.<br /><br />The district attorney for Washington and Burleson counties, Bill Parham, gave Graves his release. The prosecutor filed a motion to dismiss charges that had sent Graves to Texas' death row for most of his adult life. Graves returned to his mother's home in Brenham no longer the "cold-blooded killer," so characterized by the prosecutor who first tried him, but as another exonerated inmate who even in the joy of redemption will face the daunting prospect of reassembling the pieces of a shattered life.<br /><br />"He's an innocent man," Parham said, noting that his office investigated the case for five months. "There is nothing that connects Anthony Graves to this crime. I did what I did because that's the right thing to do."<br /><br />An attorney for Graves, Jimmy Phillips Jr., said his client was released from Burleson County Jail, where he had been awaiting a retrial, at about 5:30 p.m.<br /><br />Graves immediately went to see his mother in Brenham and reportedly spent the night near Austin. "The first place he wanted to go is to go hug his mama," Phillips said. "He is a free man, and he's home."<br /><br />Graves called his mother to tell her he was coming home. Doris Curry left the house to pick up her youngest son, and by the time she returned home, Graves was already there, surrounded by family and friends.<br /><br />"I hugged him and I hugged him and I cried and we both cried and we hugged and we cried," Curry said. "He said: 'Mama, it's over. Mama, 18 years we've fought this fight a long time. It's over. Justice has been done for me.' "<br /><br />The 62-year-old woman said she never doubted the innocence of Graves, the eldest of her five children.<br /><br />"A mother knows her child," she said. "I know what kind of person he was. He wasn't that person they built him up to be."<br /><br />'He's lost a lot'<br /><br />Curry said there is no way to ever fill the void of Graves' 18 years in prison, close to half his life. It is time gone that cannot be retrieved, she said.<br /><br />"But he can build his life on what he has and move on," she said. "He's lost a lot. He was 26 years old when they took him. Now he's 45. He's got grandchildren he's never touched."<br /><br />Graves' youngest brother, Arthur Curry, testified in vain at his 1994 trial, telling jurors that Graves had been at home sleeping at the time when the murders occurred. Jurors did not believe him, so his brother's return home carried a deep, personal significance.<br /><br />"The sun couldn't shine any brighter," Curry, now 37, said. "It's just like celebrating a resurrection, almost, because it was almost like a death in our family. But it was a slow death, continuously, just waiting for that demise."<br /><br />'I lied on him in court'<br /><br />Graves was convicted of assisting Robert Earl Carter in the slaying of Bobbie Davis, 45; her 16-year-old daughter, Nicole; and Davis' four grandchildren, ages 4 to 9, on Aug. 18, 1992. Carter was executed in 2000. Two weeks before his death, he provided a sworn statement saying that his naming of Graves as an accomplice was a lie.<br /><br />He repeated the statement while strapped to the gurney minutes before his death: "Anthony Graves had nothing to do with it. ... I lied on him in court."<br /><br />Charles Sebesta, then the district attorney, did not believe Carter. Even after he no longer held the post, Sebesta held to his beliefs, calling Graves "cold-blooded" and taking out an ad in two Burleson County newspapers in 2009 to dispute media reports criticizing the conduct of prosecutors.<br /><br />The evidence against Graves was never overwhelming, depending mostly on Carter's earlier accusation and jailhouse statements purportedly overheard by law enforcement officers. Even Sebesta acknowledged it was not his strongest case.<br /><br />"I've had some slam-dunk cases," he said in 2001. "It was not a slam-dunk case."<br /><br />Graves' appellate attorneys, Jay Burnett and Roy Greenwood, knew it was far less. They soon were convinced their client had no knowledge of or participation in the crime, just as he had claimed since the moment of his arrest.<br /><br />Over the years, there was increasing evidence raised to doubt the validity of the conviction. Students in a University of St. Thomas journalism class worked with The Innocence Project at the University of Houston to review the Graves case in detail.<br /><br />Nicole Casarez, the journalism professor who taught the class, and one of her students interviewed Carter's brother, whose affidavit along with other evidence they gathered helped persuade the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to order a hearing, which eventually led to the new trial.<br /><br />"I think the dismissal motion filed this morning says it best: There is no credible evidence to inculpate this defendant," Casarez said Wednesday night. "I’m just thrilled that it has finally come to this. I think it was a lot of people working very hard, perhaps even divine intervention, so that it all worked out today."<br /><br />Siegler was to prosecute<br /><br />The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Graves’ conviction in 2006. A three-judge panel said he deserved a new trial after ruling that prosecutors elicited false statements from two witnesses and withheld two statements that could have changed the minds of jurors.<br /><br />Graves eventually was returned to county jail with a bond set at $1 million, and Parham began to reassemble the case and review the evidence. He hired former Harris County assistant district attorney Kelly Siegler as a special prosecutor. Siegler soon saw that making a case against Graves was all but impossible.<br /><br />"After months of investigation and talking to every witness who's ever been involved in this case, and people who've never been talked to before, after looking under every rock we could find, we found not one piece of credible evidence that links Anthony Graves to the commission of this capital murder," Siegler said Wednesday.<br /><br />It was not that the case had gone moldy over the years, she said, but that it never really existed in the first place.<br /><br />"This is not a case where the evidence went south with time or witnesses passed away or we just couldn't make the case anymore," Siegler said. "He is an innocent man."<br /><br />Mike Tolson compiled this report.<br /><br />
<br /><br />In my searching I found this:<br /><br />http://www.deathrow-usa.com/anthony_graves.htm<br /><br />Anthony Graves <br />999127 Graves Anthony 09/07/2006 Conviction Overturned, released from Death Row <br />Fantastic news October 28,2010 Anthony Graves is finally freed after serving 18 years for a crime he did not commit. The system is broken--shut it down!<br /><br />Video of Anthony Graves Speaking Out - October 2010 after 18 years freed from Death Row <br /><br />Greetings: <br /><br />My name is Anthony Graves and I am an inmate on Texas Death Row. I am seeking friendship from anyone that's caring and carries a open mind the Death Penalty.<br /><br /> I am an African American male who's 38 years old with a birthdate coming up in August... August 29th to be exact... my hobbies are few but very important to helping maintain a balance of sorts in my prison of hell...I love to read Novels, write letters of friendship, listen to music of various kinds, exercise and share laughs. I consider myself to be a kind loving, intelligent, humourous person who has the versatility to communticate on many subjects of discussions.<br /><br /> I will encourage you to log on to my personal website for information about my case and also to look at my personal family photo album... I know that I am a great person and passing up the opportunity to befriend me is like blocking ones own blessings... I hope to hear from you soon.<br /><br />Yours sincerely<br /><br /> Anthony Graves<br /><br /> #999127<br /><br /><br />After seeing the date of this article (2006) and the birthdate of Mr. Graves (August 29th) it got me to thinking. What if Michael ran across this information and knew of this gentleman and used Robert Earl Carter for the believers to find Mr. Graves and to see how much corruption there is that goes on in the government?<br /><br />I realize we already know that there is corruption, but it would make sense to make it part of the hoax.<br /><br />Another piece that got my attention was the heading of one of the paragraphs - 'I lied on him'. This is a term that southern people use and if I am remembering correctly, this was stated during this hoax (either Miss Katherine or Teddy Riley, I think) - I'll have to find it.<br /><br />In my opinion the Robert Earl Carter in this hoax was for us to find Anthony Graves and the lengths that the prosecution will go to get a conviction, right or wrong (2005 trial and Murray's trial). This also reminds me of Murray's 3 hour video he put out.<br /><br />What is everyone's thoughts on this?<br /><br />Love you Michael!<br /><br />
<br /><br />http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-sets-man-free-from-death-row-1619337.php<br /><br />Texas sets man free from death row<br />Prisoner ordered free from Texas' death row<br /><br />BRIAN ROGERS and CINDY GEORGE<br /><br />, Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle<br /><br /> Published 05:30 a.m., Wednesday, October 27, 2010<br /><br />After 18 years of incarceration and countless protestations of innocence, Anthony Graves finally got a nod of approval from the one person who mattered Wednesday and at last returned home — free from charges that he participated in the butchery of a family in Somerville he did not know and free of the possibility that he would have to answer for them with his life.<br /><br />The district attorney for Washington and Burleson counties, Bill Parham, gave Graves his release. The prosecutor filed a motion to dismiss charges that had sent Graves to Texas' death row for most of his adult life. Graves returned to his mother's home in Brenham no longer the "cold-blooded killer," so characterized by the prosecutor who first tried him, but as another exonerated inmate who even in the joy of redemption will face the daunting prospect of reassembling the pieces of a shattered life.<br /><br />"He's an innocent man," Parham said, noting that his office investigated the case for five months. "There is nothing that connects Anthony Graves to this crime. I did what I did because that's the right thing to do."<br /><br />An attorney for Graves, Jimmy Phillips Jr., said his client was released from Burleson County Jail, where he had been awaiting a retrial, at about 5:30 p.m.<br /><br />Graves immediately went to see his mother in Brenham and reportedly spent the night near Austin. "The first place he wanted to go is to go hug his mama," Phillips said. "He is a free man, and he's home."<br /><br />Graves called his mother to tell her he was coming home. Doris Curry left the house to pick up her youngest son, and by the time she returned home, Graves was already there, surrounded by family and friends.<br /><br />"I hugged him and I hugged him and I cried and we both cried and we hugged and we cried," Curry said. "He said: 'Mama, it's over. Mama, 18 years we've fought this fight a long time. It's over. Justice has been done for me.' "<br /><br />The 62-year-old woman said she never doubted the innocence of Graves, the eldest of her five children.<br /><br />"A mother knows her child," she said. "I know what kind of person he was. He wasn't that person they built him up to be."<br /><br />'He's lost a lot'<br /><br />Curry said there is no way to ever fill the void of Graves' 18 years in prison, close to half his life. It is time gone that cannot be retrieved, she said.<br /><br />"But he can build his life on what he has and move on," she said. "He's lost a lot. He was 26 years old when they took him. Now he's 45. He's got grandchildren he's never touched."<br /><br />Graves' youngest brother, Arthur Curry, testified in vain at his 1994 trial, telling jurors that Graves had been at home sleeping at the time when the murders occurred. Jurors did not believe him, so his brother's return home carried a deep, personal significance.<br /><br />"The sun couldn't shine any brighter," Curry, now 37, said. "It's just like celebrating a resurrection, almost, because it was almost like a death in our family. But it was a slow death, continuously, just waiting for that demise."<br /><br />'I lied on him in court'<br /><br />Graves was convicted of assisting Robert Earl Carter in the slaying of Bobbie Davis, 45; her 16-year-old daughter, Nicole; and Davis' four grandchildren, ages 4 to 9, on Aug. 18, 1992. Carter was executed in 2000. Two weeks before his death, he provided a sworn statement saying that his naming of Graves as an accomplice was a lie.<br /><br />He repeated the statement while strapped to the gurney minutes before his death: "Anthony Graves had nothing to do with it. ... I lied on him in court."<br /><br />Charles Sebesta, then the district attorney, did not believe Carter. Even after he no longer held the post, Sebesta held to his beliefs, calling Graves "cold-blooded" and taking out an ad in two Burleson County newspapers in 2009 to dispute media reports criticizing the conduct of prosecutors.<br /><br />The evidence against Graves was never overwhelming, depending mostly on Carter's earlier accusation and jailhouse statements purportedly overheard by law enforcement officers. Even Sebesta acknowledged it was not his strongest case.<br /><br />"I've had some slam-dunk cases," he said in 2001. "It was not a slam-dunk case."<br /><br />Graves' appellate attorneys, Jay Burnett and Roy Greenwood, knew it was far less. They soon were convinced their client had no knowledge of or participation in the crime, just as he had claimed since the moment of his arrest.<br /><br />Over the years, there was increasing evidence raised to doubt the validity of the conviction. Students in a University of St. Thomas journalism class worked with The Innocence Project at the University of Houston to review the Graves case in detail.<br /><br />Nicole Casarez, the journalism professor who taught the class, and one of her students interviewed Carter's brother, whose affidavit along with other evidence they gathered helped persuade the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to order a hearing, which eventually led to the new trial.<br /><br />"I think the dismissal motion filed this morning says it best: There is no credible evidence to inculpate this defendant," Casarez said Wednesday night. "I’m just thrilled that it has finally come to this. I think it was a lot of people working very hard, perhaps even divine intervention, so that it all worked out today."<br /><br />Siegler was to prosecute<br /><br />The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Graves’ conviction in 2006. A three-judge panel said he deserved a new trial after ruling that prosecutors elicited false statements from two witnesses and withheld two statements that could have changed the minds of jurors.<br /><br />Graves eventually was returned to county jail with a bond set at $1 million, and Parham began to reassemble the case and review the evidence. He hired former Harris County assistant district attorney Kelly Siegler as a special prosecutor. Siegler soon saw that making a case against Graves was all but impossible.<br /><br />"After months of investigation and talking to every witness who's ever been involved in this case, and people who've never been talked to before, after looking under every rock we could find, we found not one piece of credible evidence that links Anthony Graves to the commission of this capital murder," Siegler said Wednesday.<br /><br />It was not that the case had gone moldy over the years, she said, but that it never really existed in the first place.<br /><br />"This is not a case where the evidence went south with time or witnesses passed away or we just couldn't make the case anymore," Siegler said. "He is an innocent man."<br /><br />Mike Tolson compiled this report.<br /><br />
<br /><br />In my searching I found this:<br /><br />http://www.deathrow-usa.com/anthony_graves.htm<br /><br />Anthony Graves <br />999127 Graves Anthony 09/07/2006 Conviction Overturned, released from Death Row <br />Fantastic news October 28,2010 Anthony Graves is finally freed after serving 18 years for a crime he did not commit. The system is broken--shut it down!<br /><br />Video of Anthony Graves Speaking Out - October 2010 after 18 years freed from Death Row <br /><br />Greetings: <br /><br />My name is Anthony Graves and I am an inmate on Texas Death Row. I am seeking friendship from anyone that's caring and carries a open mind the Death Penalty.<br /><br /> I am an African American male who's 38 years old with a birthdate coming up in August... August 29th to be exact... my hobbies are few but very important to helping maintain a balance of sorts in my prison of hell...I love to read Novels, write letters of friendship, listen to music of various kinds, exercise and share laughs. I consider myself to be a kind loving, intelligent, humourous person who has the versatility to communticate on many subjects of discussions.<br /><br /> I will encourage you to log on to my personal website for information about my case and also to look at my personal family photo album... I know that I am a great person and passing up the opportunity to befriend me is like blocking ones own blessings... I hope to hear from you soon.<br /><br />Yours sincerely<br /><br /> Anthony Graves<br /><br /> #999127<br /><br /><br />After seeing the date of this article (2006) and the birthdate of Mr. Graves (August 29th) it got me to thinking. What if Michael ran across this information and knew of this gentleman and used Robert Earl Carter for the believers to find Mr. Graves and to see how much corruption there is that goes on in the government?<br /><br />I realize we already know that there is corruption, but it would make sense to make it part of the hoax.<br /><br />Another piece that got my attention was the heading of one of the paragraphs - 'I lied on him'. This is a term that southern people use and if I am remembering correctly, this was stated during this hoax (either Miss Katherine or Teddy Riley, I think) - I'll have to find it.<br /><br />In my opinion the Robert Earl Carter in this hoax was for us to find Anthony Graves and the lengths that the prosecution will go to get a conviction, right or wrong (2005 trial and Murray's trial). This also reminds me of Murray's 3 hour video he put out.<br /><br />What is everyone's thoughts on this?<br /><br />Love you Michael!<br /><br />
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