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Kaine Grants Conditional Pardons in 'Norfolk 4' Case

By Steve Hall

That's the headline at the Washington Post website on the controversial Virginia case,  The report is written by Anita Kumar and Tom Jackman.   LINK Gov. Timothy M. Kaine on Thursday afternoon granted conditional pardons to three members of the "Norfolk 4," clearing the way for the former sailors to be released from prison, where they were serving life sentences for the 1997 rape and murder of a woman in Norfolk. The pardons of Danial Williams, Derek Tice and Joseph Dick culminated a four-year campaign to clear four former sailors of a crime to which they all had confessed. The men claimed they were coerced into admitting the crime and that detectives fed them details of the incident. Some of those details turned out to be wrong...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).