by Drago Bratic | Jan 9, 2019 | Exoneree, HP grid
Brandon Jones and Leroy Spruill – Freedom, but no Justice On December 18, 1993, Frank Swain was found murdered in his Washington County, North Carolina home. A year later, on December 13, 1994, Brandon Jones and Leroy Spruill were arrested for his murder....
by Drago Bratic | Jan 5, 2018 | Exoneree, HP grid
Mark Carver, conviction overturned after 8 years On Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 the Honorable Judge Christopher Bragg vacated the 2011 conviction of Mark Carver for the 2008 murder of Irina Yarmolenko in Gaston County, NC. The court’s findings included that Mr. Carver’s...
by Drago Bratic | Aug 3, 2017 | Exoneree, Newsletter
Ghost of the Innocent Man, a book about Willie Grimes’ Exoneration Ghost of the Innocent Man, by Benjamin Rachlin, chronicles Willie Grimes’ exoneration and the establishment of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission. It was named one of...
by Drago Bratic | May 28, 2017 | Exoneree
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...
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...
