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Another one: North Carolina sees the release of another innocent man

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Glenn Edward Chapman has woken up every morning for fifteen years wondering was going to be killed, another victim in the war on innocence.  His reprieve via Death Watch: Chapman was sentenced to death for the 1992 murders of Betty Jean Ramseur and Tenene Yvette Conley in Hickory. Last November Superior Court Judge Robert C. Ervin ordered a new trial for Chapman, citing withheld evidence, ?lost, misplaced or destroyed? documents, the use of weak, circumstantial evidence, false testimony by the lead investigator, and ineffective assistance of defense counsel. Ervin also cited evidence that Ms. Conley may not have been murdered, but instead died of a drug overdose. Catawba County District Attorney James Gaither, Jr. dismissed the charges against Chapman today...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 03, 2008 (boomark / email).