(Reuters) – A man imprisoned for nearly four decades for the 1976 stabbing deaths of a mother and daughter in North Carolina was declared innocent on Friday by a three-judge panel, local media reported.
Joseph Sledge, 70, is the eighth inmate exonerated of criminal charges following reviews by the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission. The state agency, the first of its kind in the United States, has investigated hundreds of innocence claims since it was created by North Carolina lawmakers in 2006.
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