{"id":83347,"date":"2018-12-07T16:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83347"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:03","slug":"settlement-reached-in-infamous-norfolk-four-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83347","title":{"rendered":"Settlement reached in infamous &#8216;Norfolk Four&#8217; case\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6456941\/Settlement-reached-infamous-Norfolk-4-case.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6976402-6456941-image-a-34_1543900726292.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6456941\/Settlement-reached-infamous-Norfolk-4-case.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6976398-6456941-image-m-33_1543900721613.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6456941\/Settlement-reached-infamous-Norfolk-4-case.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6976396-6456941-image-a-38_1543901188159.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6456941\/Settlement-reached-infamous-Norfolk-4-case.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6976394-6456941-image-m-37_1543901183199.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Infamous &#8216;Norfolk Four&#8217; sailors wrongly accused of a woman&#8217;s rape and murder are paid $4.9million in settlement 21 years after their conviction, following a campaign by novelist John Grisham<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Four sailors were convicted in 1997 rape and killing of Michelle Moore-Bosko<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Eric Wilson, Danial Williams, Joseph Dick and Derek Tice were later exonerated\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The city of Norfolk has agreed to pay $4.9million to the sailors and the state agreed to pay $3.5million\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>DNA evidence linked another man, Omar Ballard, to the crimes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Three of the men were granted conditional pardons in 2009 but their convictions remained on the books<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Wilson had failed to get his conviction overturned in court because he had already completed his sentence when he brought the challenge<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The men have long said they confessed only after being intimidated by police<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The city of Norfolk has agreed to pay $4.9million to four former sailors who were wrongly convicted of a woman&#8217;s rape and murder based on intimidating police interrogations. The state also has agreed to pay $3.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The payments close out a decades-long case that drew widespread attention as the men&#8217;s innocence claims were backed by dozens of former FBI agents, ex-prosecutors and crime novelist John Grisham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;These guys can now put all this behind them and try to recoup their lives,&#8217; said Tony Troy, a lawyer who represented one of the sailors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The men &#8211; Eric Wilson, Danial Williams, Joseph Dick and Derek Tice &#8211; were pardoned by then-Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe last year of the 1997 rape and murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6456941\/Settlement-reached-infamous-Norfolk-4-case.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/6977006-6456941-image-a-41_1543901229645.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Ballard admitted sole responsibility for the killing and is serving a life sentence<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will not even pretend I\u00a0can understand what those 4 men went through.\u00a0 Nor can I imagine the emotional nightmare the loved ones of\u00a0Michelle Moore-Bosko have been through.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6456941\/Settlement-reached-infamous-Norfolk-4-case.html\">Settlement reached in infamous &#8216;Norfolk Four&#8217; case | Daily Mail Online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infamous &#8216;Norfolk Four&#8217; sailors wrongly accused of a woman&#8217;s rape and murder are paid $4.9million in &hellip; <a title=\"Settlement reached in infamous &#8216;Norfolk Four&#8217; case\u00a0\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83347\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Settlement reached in infamous &#8216;Norfolk Four&#8217; case\u00a0<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":83353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,15,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-legal","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83347","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}