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TV documentary poses questions in murder of Michael Jordan s father
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Daniel Andre Green, one of the men imprisoned for the murder of Michael Jordan s father, is seeking a new trial, according to the
A fisherman discovered the body of James Jordan near McColl, South Carolina, in August 1993. Larry Martin Demery pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in 1995 and testified against Green as part of his guilty plea, implicating Green as the shooter.
Woolverton wrote Green admitted to aiding in the disposal of Jordan s body and stealing some of his property. However, he and his attorneys are arguing he wasn t involved in the murder itself. They say they can show that Green was at a party on the night that Jordan was killed, and that he had no involvement in the homicide until after Jordan was dead, per Woolverton. They say Demery came to Green and asked him to help dispose of Jordan s body.
appeal was denied, we started pursuing clemency and retained an attorney out of greensboro for that. two things he did, he gave polygraphs to my co-defendant and myself. another thing he did was file a motion for dna testing. of course that motion for dna testing was denied and that effectively shut out any kind of avenues i had through the courts after that. reporter: then, chris mumma came into his life. we get, you know, 750,000 claims a year. we reject about 95% of them. reporter: mumma runs the north carolina center on actual innocence, a last resort for those who claim they ve been wrongly convicted. they ll write us a letter. we send them a questionnaire and a release. so if they re willing to take the trouble, and i m pretty sure anybody who s innocent will take the trouble to fill out that
they touched her. so the physical evidence, it defies science, it defies common sense. it was just a perfect storm of bad luck. you know, between the choices i made to get that truck stuck in the ditch, things that were out of my control, the tunnel vision on the police, the attorney i had that went to prison, the jury who decided there wasn t much to go on, but yet convicted me anyway. reporter: in 2007, chris mumma brought the case to the newly formed north carolina innocence inquiry commission. it was the first and only government panel in the country created to free the wrongfully imprisoned. and it was here in this unassuming room that greg s bid for freedom would be heard. once the commission was up and running and i knew the way it was designed to work, was to get around those procedural blocks. to get around those walls that were keeping greg in. reporter: for greg s daughter kristin, it meant the
questionnaire. reporter: greg wrote her in another desperate attempt to clear his name. i was given a summary of greg s case that was written by greg, in his own words. and that was incredibly compelling. reporter: why? well, he was offered a plea. they came to him and said, all we want is for you to give us johnny beck and you can go home. i don t know of any co-defendants who wouldn t turn on each other if they were guilty and have for the chance to go home. reporter: why didn t you do it? silly as it sounds, you know, what i told them, the way i put it into words was that i could still look in the mirror, and you re not taking that away, too. you know? i didn t have anything else left. i had already lost my family, my job, my house. my daughter. and what was lying going to get it back? reporter: chris mumma spent two years investigating greg s
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