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Editorial Support for North Carolina Innocence Commission Following Exoneration

By Steve Hall

Thanks to Gerda Stein of North Carolina's Center for Death Penalty Litigation for forwarding all the coverage linked below.The News & Observer of Raleigh has the editorial, "Blood-hounded." Greg Taylor's claim that he was railroaded into prison, wrongfully convicted of murder, turned out to be ... true! So three Superior Court judges concluded after a hearing that broke new ground for North Carolina's justice system.Taylor, set free after 17 years, is joyful at his exoneration. The rest of us can take satisfaction in knowing that this state now has a method capable of identifying cases where the courts, in punishing the innocent, have failed."Case shows wisdom of innocence process," is the editorial in the Charlotte Observer...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 19, 2010 (boomark / email).