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May 8, 2015<\/p>\nMay 8, 2015<\/p>\n
\u201cA new investigation by the governor into \u2018culpability\u2019 has some concerned that he may be caving to the political pressure inherent in the pardon process \u2013 particularly given the exhaustive review and judicial imprimatur that the (Henry) McCollum and (Leon) Brown cases have already received.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe original prosecutor,\u00a0Joe Freeman Britt<\/a>, has publicly opposed any pardon for the men. \u2018There is no doubt in my mind that they\u2019re not entitled to a pardon, and there in no doubt in my mind that they\u2019re not entitled to compensation for the taxpayers,\u2019 he said in the March (16)\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0story.<\/p>\n \u201cBut attorneys involved in the case and other who work in this area say that the governor\u2019s work has already been done for him.<\/p>\n \u201c \u2018A district attorney would not have consented to their innocence, and a judge would not have put innocence in their order, if there was any level of culpability,\u2019 said Chris Mumma, executive director of the North Carolina\u00a0Center on Actual Innocence<\/a>….\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 From \u201c<\/em>Begging for a pardon<\/em><\/a>: Why some of the wrongfully convicted could go penniless\u201d by Sharon McCloskey at NC Policy Watch (May 6)<\/em><\/p>\n