Gov. Bob McDonnell granted a conditional pardon Tuesday to a man who was wrongly convicted of a 2000 sexual assault. In 2008, Johnathan Montgomery was convicted of molesting a 10-year-old girl outside her grandma’s house when he was 14 years old. Nearly two weeks ago, the now woman recanted her story a few weeks ago.…
A Charles City area man exonerated in May of a 1978 wrongful rape conviction was excited to cast his first ballot in the presidential election Tuesday, but it took a bit of effort by some state officials along with many other supporters before that happened. Fifty-seven-year-old Bennett Barbour thought he was eligible to vote when…
Authorities in Norfolk and Carroll County are investigating up to five possible wrongful convictions from years past. According to several reports, DNA testing in recent years involving more than 70 cases where officials discovered after testing evidence from cases failed to match with the convicted person. The cases under scrutiny range from 1973 through 1988.…