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Who were the cops in the Stevens case?
Paul Covino, Kevin Faller, Leo A. Sacco Jr. and Sgt Det. Paul Mackowski (retired)????,
The Criminal 4!
The Cowardly Criminal Cops That Got Egg All Over Richard F. Caraviello's Fat Face and allergic-to-subpoenas Elder Batterer Ed Finn!
Allegedly a Mark E. Rumley production, but that frrrraud is too cowardly to show his hand. Which is why Rumley was frog-marched out of Medford like Shab Khan on Steroids!!!!!
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Stevens was a hard-working oysterman from the Eastern Shore. He was accused of a murder he knew nothing about. At trial, his defense lawyers faced a barrage of the factors that usually cause wrongful convictions: perjured witnesses, junk science, police misconduct and a prosecutor who was later found to have concealed a trove of exculpatory evidence.
Opinion: Virginia can do better than keeping innocent people in prison
Opinion by John Grisham
John Grisham is a novelist and retired lawyer.
It is refreshing and inspiring that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has recently made use of his singular power to grant absolute pardons to three wrongfully convicted men.
Bobbie Morman Jr., of Norfolk, spent 22 years in prison though an innocent man. Joey Carter, also of Norfolk, spent 25 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Emerson Stevens, of Lancaster County, served 32 years for a murder committed by someone else. That someone has never been caught because police framed the wrong man.
Pardons and exonerations are bittersweet. On the one hand, the years of hard work by innocence lawyers ultimately pay off, and some measure of justice is found as the wrongfully convicted finally make their dramatic walk out of the prison gates. On the other hand, it is infuriating that our criminal justice system is so broken that bogus convictions happen at all. Innocent lives are destroyed. The guilty roam free. And the police and prosecutors are almost never made to answer for their bad behavior. If the authorities played by the rules … Read more »
The Washingtonian
Those efforts can now come to an end. In his order Monday, Northam wrote: “Upon careful deliberation and review of all the information and circumstances of the matter, I have decided it is just and appropriate to grant this absolute pardon that reflects Mr. Stevens’ innocence of Abduction with Intent to Defile and First-Degree Murder, for which he was convicted on July 12, 1986.”
Stevens, who was paroled in 2017, after the Innocence Project and a slew of other supporters advocated for his release, now lives not far from Lancaster, the town where he grew up and where Harding was murdered. He currently works as a house painter. Though he was out of prison when I met him back in 2018, he had to abide by strict parole conditions, and more important, he wanted badly to clear his name. “I know I’m innocent of the crime, and I don’t want that on me,” he said.
Reached over the weekend, after he and his lawyers got the early word that the governor would pardon him, Stevens told me the news still didn’t quite feel real. He said he was celebrating with Pizza Hut and Pepsi.
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