Should Anthony Graves be compensated? — Transcript

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1. 0:00let's bring in from Emeral Texas right
2. 0:01now Jeff Blackburn the attorney for
3. 0:03Anthony graves Mr Blackburn good
4. 0:05morning morning so where do things stand
5. 0:08right now this seems pretty cut and dry
6. 0:10to the average
7. 0:12viewer well the I think it's cut and dry
8. 0:14to anybody and the problem that we've
9. 0:16got is that the Attorney General who's
10. 0:19now the only person in the state that
11. 0:21can say Anthony is truly innocent just
12. 0:24won't do that and won't agree to it why
13. 0:27is that though why is the Texas AG
14. 0:29holding up this compensation if if I we
15. 0:32heard him say there is no tie to Mr
16. 0:34Graves and the commission of this crime
17. 0:37so wherein lies the problem
18. 0:40here well you know if you're from
19. 0:42outside Texas it makes no sense at all
20. 0:44but if you're from inside Texas it makes
21. 0:46perfect sense we are a state that is
22. 0:49very addicted to uh conviction and we're
23. 0:54you know as a state we are generally at
24. 0:58least a lot of the politicians here are
25. 1:00uh I just can't get over the idea of
26. 1:03locking people up and keeping them
27. 1:05locked up the Attorney General in this
28. 1:07case Mr Abbot was had an office that was
29. 1:11directly involved in trying to to kill
30. 1:13Anthony in trying to uh uh keep this
31. 1:17case going for a lot longer than it ever
32. 1:19should have been and now he just can't
33. 1:21come out and say he was wrong that's all
34. 1:23it comes down to is this basically what
35. 1:25you're saying is a number of authorities
36. 1:27in in Houston Texas or in the state of
37. 1:30Texas basically just don't want want to
38. 1:31admit that they screwed this
39. 1:34up uh that's pretty much it we had a
40. 1:37good corageous prosecutor who finally
41. 1:39stood up and did the right thing uh as
42. 1:42you pointed out earlier there was a a a
43. 1:45technical language problem but that
44. 1:46language problem can be fixed and we
45. 1:48filed a lawsuit to get it fixed the
46. 1:51problem right now is the attorney
47. 1:52general just won't do the right thing
48. 1:55and just can't get over to the idea of
49. 1:57saying Anthony Graves is an innocent man
50. 1:59that would mean he was wrong in aiding
51. 2:02those local prosecutors in his
52. 2:04prosecution to begin with do you think
53. 2:05that this matter is going to get settled
54. 2:07will Mr Graves do you think he's ever
55. 2:08going to get is he going to get the
56. 2:09money owed him or even a
57. 2:13dollar we're going to win absolutely one
58. 2:16way or another I mean if we have to
59. 2:18we'll be able to we'll keep filing
60. 2:20lawsuits and we'll keep fighting this
61. 2:21case forever I've been part of Anthony's
62. 2:23legal team for years and these lawyers
63. 2:26are not going to give up we're not going
64. 2:28to back off and eventually we'll win but
65. 2:32in the meantime we've got a very sad
66. 2:34example of exactly how broken sometimes
67. 2:38a criminal justice system can be when
68. 2:40people just won't admit that they've
69. 2:42done wrong Jeff Blackburn we thank you
70. 2:44for taking the time this morning and I'm
71. 2:45eara Texas thank
72. 2:51you