STORY: "Ed Graf murder retrial delayed until September," by reporter Tommy Witherspoon, published by the Waco Tribune on May 3, 2104.
SUB-HEADING: "Edward Graf Jr. will have to wait until at least September for his retrial after a judge accepted prosecutors’ request for more time to work on the case."
GIST: "Edward Graf Jr., who won a new trial last year and claims he was wrongly convicted 25 years ago, will have to wait a bit longer for his retrial on charges he killed his two young stepsons in a fire in his backyard shed.
Judge Matt Johnson of Waco’s 54th State District Court, granted a request Friday morning from McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna to delay Graf’s trial, which had been set for May 19. The judge set the new trial for Sept. 15, but told the attorneys in the case to check their schedules to see if that date will work. Graf, who turns 62 on Saturday, remains in the McLennan County Jail under $1.5 million bond.........Edward Graf Jr., who won a new trial last year and claims he was wrongly convicted 25 years ago, will have to wait a bit longer for his retrial on charges he killed his two young stepsons in a fire in his backyard shed."
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SUB-HEADING: "Edward Graf Jr. will have to wait until at least September for his retrial after a judge accepted prosecutors’ request for more time to work on the case."
GIST: "Edward Graf Jr., who won a new trial last year and claims he was wrongly convicted 25 years ago, will have to wait a bit longer for his retrial on charges he killed his two young stepsons in a fire in his backyard shed.
Judge Matt Johnson of Waco’s 54th State District Court, granted a request Friday morning from McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna to delay Graf’s trial, which had been set for May 19. The judge set the new trial for Sept. 15, but told the attorneys in the case to check their schedules to see if that date will work. Graf, who turns 62 on Saturday, remains in the McLennan County Jail under $1.5 million bond.........Edward Graf Jr., who won a new trial last year and claims he was wrongly convicted 25 years ago, will have to wait a bit longer for his retrial on charges he killed his two young stepsons in a fire in his backyard shed."
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Dallas Morning News editorial: "Last March, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals concluded that “false expert testimony” helped put Graf away for life and that he was due a new trial. A consulting fire scientist said the original investigators showed little understanding of how arson fires burn. Later, a panel of experts convened by Texas State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy found that modern science could not support the arson finding made by one of the state’s own investigators in the Graf case. The fire’s origin, the experts said, should be reclassified as undetermined."
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20140220-editorial-cards-on-the-table-in-graf-case.ece
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