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Wrongly Convicted North Carolina Man Released After 44 Years in Prison

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2020 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News January, 2021, page 11
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction. Location: North Carolina.

by Douglas Ankney

In 1976, an all-White jury from Concord, North Carolina, convicted Ronnie Long, a Black man, of raping a White woman and sentenced him to 80 years in prison. He was convicted despite a lack of physical evidence tying him to the rape. In 2005, his attorneys discovered ...

 

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  2. Wrongly Convicted North Carolina Man Released After 44 Years in Prison, by Douglas Ankney
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  25. Illinois Law Firm Offers Web Application to Help Automate Expungement, by Douglas Ankney
  26. Sixth Circuit: Probation Officer’s Warrantless Search of Probationer’s Cellphone Violated Fourth Amendment, by Douglas Ankney
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