NC men freed after 30 years will seek pardons

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39. Now that makes allegations of police misconduct

It mentions that the police officer who wrote the confession for the defendants testified at trial he did NOT provide any of the facts stated in the confession. The document said that can NOT be the case, but the only issue for the court on appeal was the DNA evidence favorable to the Defendant, and in this case the DNA was favorable.

Notice no findings by any Judge that the Police committed misconduct and such a finding was NOT needed to get the court to strike down the conviction under North Carolina DNA law.

The paper points out the Confession was clearly couched by the Police, but the court did NOT have to find that to be true to overturn the conviction.

That is the FIRST paper I have read that even mentions possible Police misconduct in this case.