Five Wrongfully Convicted North Carolina Men Receive Almost $8 Million

Loaded on Feb. 7, 2017 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News February, 2017, page 34

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Guilty Pleas, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Due Process, Police. Location: North Carolina.

Five former prisoners who were wrongfully convicted in a home invasion murder have received settlements and compensation totaling nearly $8 million following a botched investigation and misconduct by the sheriff’s office in Buncombe County, North Carolina.

Three masked men entered the Fairview home of Walter R. Bowman on September 18, …

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