Family asks for compassion release for Calvin Wayne Cunningham
A man whose life spiraled out of control after he was wrongfully convicted of a 1979 rape in Newport News is said to be dying behind bars from cancer.
Jon Sheldon, a lawyer for Calvin Wayne Cunningham, an inmate at the Lunenburg Correctional Center, said Friday that, Calvin got his diagnosis yesterday: stage four liver and pancreatic cancer. He is in tremendous pain and by his condition it appears that he has a very short time, said Sheldon.
Sheldon filed a petition for an emergency compassionate release for Cunningham with the Virginia State Parole Board Friday in the hope his client will not die in prison. The governor s office and the Virginia Department of Corrections were copied on the petition.
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