$800 million is a ton of money to settle a civil suit, but two Houston attorneys helped win a settlement of that size this morning.Joel Androphy, who specializes in whistleblower suits, worked with Sarah Frazier and won a big one as the drug giant Eli Lilly agreed to pay that whopping amount to settle a civil suit over its development of the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa. Lilly will pay another $615 million to settle a related criminal case.Zyprexa is a drug approved for use against bipolar disord
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
The wait continues for Charles Raby, the Houston man sentenced to lethal injection for brutally murdering a 72-year-old grandmother in 1994.Raby and his lawyer Sarah Frazier have been fighting for years to introduce new DNA testing to the case. The results, which Frazier says exonerate Raby, finally made their way into court today. But they weren't enough to woo the judge into a snap decision.A ruling should come on February 27.The somewhat glum news probably won't faze Raby. After almost 15 yea
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
