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Gov. Kaine pardons three members of the Norfolk Four

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said today he has granted conditional pardons to three members of the ?Norfolk Four,? a group of sailors convicted of raping and killing young Navy wife Michelle Moore-Bosko in 1997 in Ocean View. Kaine said in a news conference that he has granted pardons to three sailors, still in prison, who were convicted of rape and murder. Kaine declined to pardon another former sailor, Eric Wilson, who was convicted of rape only and was released from prison in 2006 after serving more than eight years. The conditional pardons mean that Derek Tice, Danial Williams and Joseph Dick Jr. will spend no more time in prison. They each were sentenced to life for the crime. Kaine said he decided there were "grave doubts about at least the level of their complicity in the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).