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North Carolina Innocence Commission Proves Worth With First Exoneration

By Steve Hall

Today's New York Times reports, "Judges Free Inmate on Recommendation of Special Innocence Panel."  It's written by Robbie Brown.  It was a non-capital case.  Here's an extended excerpt:Acting at the recommendation of a special state innocence commission ? the only one of its kind in the nation ? a panel of North Carolina judges ruled Wednesday that a man was wrongfully convicted of murdering a prostitute in 1991 and freed him after 16 years in prison. The three-judge panel found ?clear and convincing evidence? that the man, Gregory F. Taylor, was innocent and had been convicted based on flawed evidence and unreliable testimony. It was the first case won by the commission, which was established in 2006 after a wave of embarrassing wrongful convictions in North Carolina...continue to full post

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