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Innocence Case to Get Evidentiary Hearing in Virginia

By Steve Hall

"Hearing set in Norfolk for Va. death row inmate," is the AP report by Dena Potter.  It's via the Virginian Pilot. A Virginia death row inmate who claims he was wrongly convicted in the murder-for-hire of his marijuana supplier will try to convince a Norfolk federal judge this week that he is innocent. An evidentiary hearing for Justin Michael Wolfe is scheduled to begin today to consider another man's claim that he alone killed 21-year-old Daniel Petrole Jr. in 2001. The judge also will consider sworn statements from others who say shooter Owen Barber IV told them he acted alone in killing Petrole. Barber was the key witness in Wolfe's 2002 trial, which exposed a high-end marijuana distribution ring in the wealthy suburbs of Northern Virginia...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 02, 2010 (boomark / email).