Summer 2017 Update

Summer 2017 Update

Following a very successful year in 2016 with one exoneration and 2 from the previous year, one of our goals for 2017 is to extend the reach of our educational and policy initiatives– and create more impact. One of the ways we would like to achieve this goal is to...
Joseph Abbitt

Joseph Abbitt

Joseph Abbitt In 1995, a Forsyth County jury convicted Joseph Abbitt of the 1991 first-degree rape, first-degree burglary, and first-degree kidnapping of two young sisters from Winston-Salem. His conviction was based on the eyewitness identification of the two...

Joseph Sledge Exonerated! Jan. 23, 2015

In 1976, Joseph Sledge was 34 years old and in his third year of a four-year prison term at a minimum-security facility for larceny and receiving stolen goods convictions. All of Joseph’s prior convictions were for non-violent, theft-related misdemeanors. On September...