Defense attorney Sarah Frazier got the DNA results she wanted. They might even win her tomorrow's hearing. But her client could still be put to death. Frazier has fought for years to introduce new DNA testing to the case of Charles Raby, who was convicted almost 15 years ago of murdering a grandmother in Northwest Houston. Now that they're finally in, Raby looks destined for lethal injection all the same. "There's no remedy at the end of this rainbow," Frazier tells Hair Balls. "I've got to conv
Attorney Sarah FrazierBack in January Hair Balls brought you the saga of the seemingly endless DNA case of convicted grandma-killer Charles Raby. He's been on Death Row since 1994, and the DNA challenge has been going on for more than six years. Today's scheduled ruling was pushed back yet again. Sarah Frazier, Raby's lawyer, had finally won DNA tests on the victim's fingernails. Those turned up traces of an unknown man, and no evidence of Raby. But this doesn't prove Raby innocent. Th
It's good news for death row inmate Charles Raby - and more bad news for Joseph Chu.
The former Houston crime lab analyst has taken a beating in the Michael Bromwich reports, which determined that, among other things, the lab had manipulated results to help with convictions. And it seems that in the case of Raby, who was convicted in 1994 of brutally murdering a grandmother, Chu did exactly that.
Back in April, Raby's DNA challenge, which has been going on more than six years, was postponed yet
Hair Balls reported in early June that Charles Raby, who has been sitting on death row since 1994 after being convicted of slaying a grandmother, had received some good news in his ongoing DNA challenge.An outside expert, Patricia P. Hamby, determined that the much-maligned Houston Crime Lab had been, at best, misleading in reporting its blood work during the original trial. Blood was found under the victim's fingernails, and it belonged to neither Raby nor the victim. Yet analyst Joseph Chu rep
