Jailed in 1976, Ronnie Long was cleared of all charges after appeals court determined he was a victim of "extreme and continuous police misconduct"
A North Carolina man, sentenced to 80 years in prison for rape and burglary, was released last week after spending 44 years behind bars. A federal appeals court determined that Ronnie Long, who has always maintained his innocence, had been a victim of"extreme and continuous police misconduct."
When his lawyer, Jamie Lau, with Duke University Law School's Wrongful Convictions Clinic, first called with the news, Long couldn't quite believe he was really going home. Story continuesMoriarty asked,"Did the defense at trial know that there were 43 fingerprints found at the crime scene that didn't match Ronnie Long?""Did the defense know that there had actually been a rape kit taken and evidence taken from the victim?""Did the defense know that a hair that was found at the crime scene did not match Ronnie Long?"But attorneys for the state argued that none of this would have changed the original verdict, and Long remained in...
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