Anthony Graves spent 18 years in prison wrongly convicted of murder before finally being exonerated in 2010. Since his release Graves has been working as an investigator for the Texas State Defender Service, an organization that represents death penalty defendants. Now he is giving back the woman who won his freedom, his attorney Nicole Casarez.
Casarez, a Houston attorney and journalism professor, worked for eight years to prove Graves’ innocence and secure his release from prison. Graves used part of the $1.4 million he was awarded for his wrongful imprisonment to establish a scholarship at the University of Texas Law School in Casarez’ name. With this endowment he hopes to, “encourage others to follow her example of hope, perseverance, courage and humility.”
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