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 | 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 | 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...
