North Carolina man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 24 years is pardoned
On Nov. 12, a North Carolina man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 24-years for murder has been pardoned by the Gov. Roy Cooper. Dontae Sharpe is now declared innocent of a crime he spent decades declaring he did not commit according to NPR. Gov. Cooper took office in 2017, says he reviewed the case. Sharpe’s record has been cleared and it has been determined that he didn’t commit the crime.
In April 1994, 19-year-old Sharpe was charged with first-degree murder in the murder of a white man named George Radcliffe. Radcliffe was a fatally shot in his pickup truck two months earlier in a mostly Black neighborhood in Greenville, North Carolina.
Police figured Radcliffe had been killed in a drug deal gone bad. Charlene Johnson, 14, had been released from psychiatric ward would give a statement to police that she actually saw Sharpe kill Radcliffe.
The next year, she testified against Sharpe, and on the basis of this testimony he was convicted. Weeks later Johnson recanted her statement and said she wasn’t at the location where the crime took place. The teem claimed she lied about the story based on information she was given by the police.
Now that he has received a pardon by the governor Sharpe’s legal team can now apply for up to $750,000 in compensation for his wrongful conviction.
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