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The Prosecuting Attorney. During the time of Graham’s case, the Harris County District Attorney was Johnny Holmes. Holmes was well-known for his aggressiveness to seek the death penalty in nearly ALL cases that were eligible. Holmes practice of this was what put the Harris County on the map for giving out death sentences.
Graham was appointed Ron Mock. Mock was the lawyer who was appointed for at least 10 percent of all capital cases that were happening in Harris County for the three years prior to the Graham capital murder case. Mock was reported around the county as a popular lawyer with all the Harris County Judges.
When Lambert resisted the burglary attempt, the assailant decided it was time to pull out his pistol and hold it to Lambert’s head. This is when Lambert dropped his groceries and the assailant decided to shoot Lambert in the chest. When the assailant fled, Lambert was able to stumble back in Safeway, where he later died.
Skillern was able to testify in court that she indeed identified on May 26 Graham in a photo lineup and then on May 27 she was able to identify Graham again in a face-to-face line up. She even then identified him while he was in the courtroom as well.
By the time Graham was 15 years old, he already had a pretty extensive record that consisted of unauthorized use of motor vehicles and thefts. Graham even dropped out of school when he was in seventh grade and even fathered two children as well.
The Violent History of Gary Graham. The infamous Gary Graham was known for stating that he killed 6 people and if you wanted to be the seventh, you better do something stupid. Let’s look at what lead Mr. Graham to be a part of the death row inmates.
All of Graham’s crimes were committed with a .22 caliber handgun.
The three who are still facing death penalty prosecutions are Jeremy Wayne Miller, David Ray Conley and Shelton Jones.
The other defendant who no longer faces a death prosecution is Steven Hobbs, 49. The Crosby security guard was arrested in 2011, accused of sexually assaulting and killing a prostitute, 48-year-old Sarah Annette Sanford.
If Hobbs is convicted, prosecutors were expected to tell jurors Hobbs is implicated in the sexual assault of 10 other women who came forward after he was arrested, the Chronicle previously reported. Herrera-Hernandez’s lawyer declined to comment, and attorneys for Torres and Hobbs didn’t respond to request for comment.
Seven men were charged in the case, but they were the only two to face a possible death penalty because they also held charges in separate murders, prosecutors said at the time.
Those removals reflect a landscape in Texas where the death penalty is not as highly sought or upheld, said Kristin Houlé Cuellar, executive director of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Omar Torres , a suspected MS-13 gang member, is accused in a capital murder that spanned two counties. Crosby security guard Steven Alexander Hobbs has been charged with the murders of two women and multiple rapes of sex workers. Douglas Alexander Herrera-Hernandez is accused in a capital murder that spanned two counties. ...
Conley faces three counts of capital murder in the fatal shootings of his estranged ex-girlfriend Valerie Jackson, her husband and six children, including his own son — one by one in the head. Jones will be retried after being originally sent to death row for the April 1991 murder of a police officer.