Monday, 26 January 2015

DNA Exonerates Man Who Served Nearly 40 Years For Murder

DNA Exonerates Man Who Served Nearly 40 Years For Murder


Joseph Sledge is a free man after 37 years in prison following Friday's decision by a judicial panel in North Carolina to overturn his 1976 conviction in the stabbing deaths of an elderly mother and her daughter. The Associated Press says DNA evidence had helped to exonerate Sledge, now 70, whose case was referred last month to the three-judge panel by the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission.

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