Norfolk Four. Feature Documentary. The Norfolk Four story is featured in the PBS Frontline documentary. Mc. AULIFFE. On Tuesday, March 2. Joseph Dick, Derek Tice, Danial Williams, and Eric Wilson, four innocent Navy veterans known as the . The Norfolk Four were wrongfully convicted of rape and murder in 1. We have been haunted by these wrongful convictions for twenty years, which have created profound pain, hardships, and stress for each of us and our families.
National's 2017 list has been announced and it has a very same old same old feel about it. We’ve seen it in the movies: a cop tells a suspect they already have the evidence they need, so the person might as well fess up, even if there is, in fact, no.
We now look forward to rebuilding our reputations and our lives,” said Eric Wilson. Williams, Derek Tice and Eric Wilson are innocent and should now receive full pardons to clear their names once and for all. A Womans Life (2017) Movie Trailers. Only a pardon from Governor Mc. Auliffe can ensure that all four men are able to fully reclaim their lives. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia vacated the convictions of two members of the Norfolk Four, Joseph Dick and Danial Williams, after finding them innocent of the rape and murder of Michelle Moore- Bosko in a September 2.
Opinion, which stated: “By any measure, the evidence shows the defendants’ innocence – by a preponderance of the evidence, by clear and convincing evidence, by evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, or even by conclusive evidence.” The September 2. Opinion can be accessed here; the October 3. Order can be accessed here; and the October 3. Mr. Dick and Mr. Williams can be accessed here. Williams of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted Derek Tice’s federal habeas petition and overturned Mr.
Tice’s conviction. Tice’s habeas petition based on the violation of his constitutional rights was correct, and that the Virginia Supreme Court’s reversal of that decision was an “objectively unreasonable” application of federal law. Derek Tice, Danial Williams, and Joseph Dick, Jr. Navy, were convicted of crimes they did not commit. They were convicted based on false confessions extracted by a detective who has a documented history of eliciting false confessions and has recently been indicted by a federal grand jury on extortion charges. District Court on two counts of extortion and one count of making false statements to the FBI. He faces up to 2.
They have all called on Governor Kaine to grant pardons to the Norfolk Four. View the letter from the former FBI Special Agents to Governor Kaine, and footage from the former FBI Special Agents’ press conference. All the men are still fighting to clear their names.