{"id":68745,"date":"2016-11-03T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68745"},"modified":"2016-11-03T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:03:21","slug":"2-norfolk-four-cases-tossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68745","title":{"rendered":"2 more &#8220;Norfolk Four&#8221; cases tossed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68748\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68748\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/19norf190.2.jpg\" alt=\"19norf190.2\" width=\"190\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68748\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunchronicle.com\/vip\/news\/nation_world\/judge-throws-out-convictions-of-norfolk-four-defendants\/article_999d4ef3-91f1-5e2b-a57b-707fee7fc5bf.html#.WBs8hzRZADY.email\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that two sailors who had been convicted of rape and murder in a 1997 case have been exonerated by a judge. Danial Williams and Joseph Dick have been out of jail since 2009, but they were still serving parole for the rape and murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko. U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. threw out the rape and murder convictions of the two former sailors giving prosecutors 60 days to decide whether or not they want to re-try the case;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Derek Tice, another member of the Norfolk Four, had his conviction overturned in 2009. Eric Wilson, who was convicted only of the rape, has been unable to convince courts to do the same because he already completed his sentence. Williams, Dick and Tice were still on parole when they challenged their convictions.<\/p>\n<p>DNA evidence in the case matched a fifth man, Omar Ballard, who confessed to committing the crime alone. He is serving a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That detective, Robert Glenn Ford, was convicted in 2011 of extortion and lying to the FBI in unrelated cases. He is serving 121\/2 years in prison for taking tens of thousands of dollars from drug dealers in exchange for getting them favorable treatment at sentencing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that two sailors who had been convicted of rape and murder in &hellip; <a title=\"2 more &#8220;Norfolk Four&#8221; cases tossed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68745\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 more &#8220;Norfolk Four&#8221; cases tossed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}