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Landmark Exoneration in NC Almost Never Happened

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an AP report on the recent exoneration by the North Carolina Innocence Commission.  It's by Martha Waggoner and is via the Washington Post.Nearly two years ago, North Carolina's groundbreaking innocence panel received the evidence it needed to free a man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of murdering a prostitute. Yet he stayed behind bars while commission investigators overlooked the evidence. Uncovering it took a chance brainstorm by a defense lawyer, repeated questioning of a crime lab investigator and a nudge from an unlikely source - the prosecutor who sent the man to prison. Last month, Greg Taylor was the first person to be exonerated by the 3-year-old North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, a landmark for the only state-run agency in the country dedicated to proving a convicted person's innocence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).