by Drago Bratic | May 28, 2017 | Exoneree, News
Dwayne Dail Exonerated After 18 Years In 1989, 20 year-old Dwayne Dail was sentenced to two life sentences plus 18 years for the rape of a 12 year-old girl in Goldsboro, NC. The prosecution’s case relied heavily on two pieces of “evidence”: 1) the victim’s...
by Drago Bratic | May 26, 2017 | Exoneree
Greg Taylor: In Pursuit of Justice On September 26, 1991, Greg Taylor got his Nissan Pathfinder stuck in mud approximately 100 yards from a cul-de-sac where a young woman named Jacquetta Thomas was found brutally murdered early the next morning. In April 1993, despite...
by Drago Bratic | May 26, 2017 | Exoneree
Willie Grimes: Free At Last In 1987, an African-American male forced his way into the home of an elderly woman in Hickory, North Carolina. The intruder warned that he had a knife in his pocket and he would cut her if she did not cooperate. He proceeded to rape her...
by Drago Bratic | May 26, 2017 | Exoneree
Larry Lamb: A Free Man In the early morning hours of February 28, 1987, Mr. Leamon Grady was found dead in his Mount Olive, North Carolina residence from a single gunshot wound to the chest. No murder weapon was ever found. In 1993, Larry Lamb was convicted of...
by Drago Bratic | May 26, 2017 | Exoneree
Joseph Sledge Exonerated after 37 Years 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...