by Drago Bratic | Jul 3, 2017 | News
April 10, 2017 from WECT A man who was released from prison in August 2016 after spending nearly three decades behind bars in a 1988 murder in Wilmington has filed a federal wrongful conviction lawsuit against the officers who investigated the case and the City of...
by Drago Bratic | Jul 3, 2017 | News
December 13, 2016 from StarNews Online A man who was released from prison in August after spending nearly three decades behind bars in a 1988 Wilmington killing sent a formal request this week to Gov. Pat McCrory asking for a pardon. In August, following a weeklong...
by Drago Bratic | Jul 3, 2017 | News
April 27, 2017 from the News & Observer Seven years ago, Greg Taylor was freed from prison after spending over seventeen years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Had it not been for the efforts of a determined lawyer, Chris Mumma of the N.C. Center on...
by Drago Bratic | Jul 3, 2017 | News
April 27, 2017 from WECT Joseph Sledge spent 37 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In 1977, he was convicted of the brutal murders of Josephine and Aileen Davis, a mother and daughter who were stabbed to death during an apparent robbery and sexual...
by Drago Bratic | May 30, 2017 | News
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...
by Drago Bratic | May 28, 2017 | News
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...
