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Why Haven t You Heard of CES Openshaw?

Why Haven t You Heard of CES Openshaw? The lawyer made a splash in the 30s fighting capital punishment with a high-profile Barrow Gang case. By Gwendolyn Knapp 12/14/2020 at 6:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Houstonia Days before Raymond Hamilton, the short, dapper 21-year-old “youthful Dallas desperado,” as newspapers called him, and lieutenant in the infamous Barrow Gang—yes, of Bonnie and Clyde fame—was set to meet his fate in the Huntsville electric chair on May 10, 1935, little known Houston attorney Camille Openshaw agreed to take up his case, seeking to commute his sentence to life imprisonment. You’d think Hamilton’s made-for-Hollywood crimes and his popularity as “the southwest’s ranking criminal” would garner all the newsprint attention—he was set to be executed after he and accomplice Joe Palmer had killed a prison guard while busting out of a prison farm during a raid staged by Clyde Barrow and c

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