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Re: Comprehensive review of the Ed Graf and Todd Willingham cases
Date: August 21, 2015 08:15AM
It is difficult to know if what you are reading is accurate because reporters are notoriously bad about dramatizing things for effect (these days), but it sounds like not only did the defense CLEARLY not no that if he pled guilty as opposed to being FOUND guilty,that his sentencing guidelines would be the ones from his original conviction. Not surprising, but the writer leads the reader to believe that Graf's own attorney's had no clue either. I guess he had a LONG time to comb through law books.
Dan Hebert (aka Heenan)
Retired ATF-CFI
Forensic Investigations Group
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