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Graves murder re-trial delayed

The re-trial for a man who spent more than a decade on death row accused of capital murder will have to wait a little longer, attorneys for both sides agreed Tuesday during a pre-trial hearing at the Burleson County Courthouse.

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MHB gets bail cut for death row inmate

Mullin Hoard & Brown lawyers David Mullin, Robert Bell and Larry Doss are fighting to vindicate an innocent man who has been on death row for 14 years. In March 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit vacated the capital murder conviction of Anthony Graves, finding that the prosecution in Graves' trial had suborned perjury and concealed exculpatory evidence. The State is attempting to retry Graves in Burleson County. Recently Mullin Hoard & Brown obtained a writ of mandamus from the Waco Court of Appeals vacating an unconstitutional gag order entered by the District Judge.

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Judge says negligent audit caused bigger bank losses

On March 14, 2007, Mullin Hoard & Brown lawyers David Mullin, John Brown and Clint Latham won a major victory for the FDIC in a malpractice suit against accounting giant Grant Thornton, LLP, when after a lengthy trial, Judge David Faber entered Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law determining that Grant Thornton had blown its audit of the First National Bank of Keystone and caused $25 million in damages.

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