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Whatâs the price for decades of wrongful imprisonment? Ronnie Long sues NC city, cops
Ronnie Long files lawsuit against City of Concord By Michael Gordon | The Charlotte Observer | May 3, 2021 at 3:13 PM EDT - Updated May 3 at 7:46 PM
CONCORD, N.C. (The Charlotte Observer) - Ronnie Long on Monday filed his IOU to the City of Concord for the 44 years he spent in prison for a crime he says he did not commit.
Long, a Concord native, is not offering a hometown discount.
Ronnie Long sues City of Concord over wrongful arrest
In a lawsuit filed in the Raleigh federal courts, Long is demanding that the city and a group of its current and former law enforcement officers pay for what his complaint describes as a corrupt investigation and cover-up that led to Longâs 1976 rape conviction and 80-year prison sentence.
murder of his daughter, valerie hamilton. a suspect was arrested in western new york in the case but in the days since her murder there are still many questions. yunji de nies reports. this is not a murder. there s no murder at all. she overdosed in her sleep. she didn t sound like she was on anything. she didn t sound like she was drunk. he woke up and she was dead. what do you think happened that night? you know, i don t know. we may never know. we may never know what happened. reporter: what concord police chief merl hamilton does know, his daughter valerie was found dead in this storage locker after a late night with michael neil harvey, a registered sex offender with a lengthy criminal record, including rape, breaking and entering, and drug possession. do you think that he killed your daughter? i don t know. i don t know enough about it to say that. i think if he wasn t with my daughter that night, she would be alive.
murder of his daughter, valerie hamilton. a suspect was arrested in western new york in the case but in the days since her murder there are still many questions. yunji de nies reports. this is not a murder. there s no murder at all. she overdosed in her sleep. she didn t sound like she was on anything. she didn t sound like she was drunk. we woke up and she was dead. what do you think happened that night? you know, i don t know. we may never know. we may never know what happened. reporter: what concord police chief merl hamilton does know, his daughter valerie was found dead in this storage locker after a late night with michael neil harvey, a registered sex offender with a lengthy criminal record, including rape, breaking and entering, and drug possession. do you think that he killed your daughter? i don t know. i don t know enough about it to say that. i think if he wasn t with my