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Gov. Cooper's pardon for 2019 exoneree Dontae Sharpe is overdue, advocates say


Criminal justice advocates rallied and delivered a letter to Gov. Cooper Friday petitioning him to issue a pardon to Dontae Sharpe, who spent 24 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
Sharpe, who’s Black, was convicted of the 1994 murder of a George Radcliffe, a 34-year-old white, Greenville man, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. He was 19 when the jury sent him to prison in 1995. Evidentiary hearings during Sharpe’s appeals later uncovered inconsistencies in the account of a 14-year-old girl who served as a key witness.
“This pardon, I’m not begging for it. I’m not pleading for it,” Sharpe said at the press conference before he and his supporters before their march to deliver the letter. ....

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Nonviolent -- but not peaceful -- protests aim to bring about change in Elizabeth City


Nonviolent but not peaceful protests aim to bring about change in Elizabeth City
Martha Quillin, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
May 29 Marchers in Elizabeth City protesting the April 21 officer shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. quickly fell into a rhythm last Tuesday night, their feet and voices rising and falling almost in unison.
Through the streets of downtown, their now-familiar chants ricocheting off the old brick buildings. They returned again and again to a refrain that after five weeks of marching has become both a rallying cry and a solemn promise.
No justice? they shouted. No peace!
No justice? ....

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