Coverage dated November 21, 2021 to November 22, 2021
4 Black men exonerated more than 70 years after being wrongly accused of raping a White teen girl
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By Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The families of the “Groveland Four” got some closure Monday after Florida officially cleared four young Black men wrongly accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl in 1949. Circuit Court Judge Heidi Davis in Lake County, Florida, granted the State’s motion to posthumously di…
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A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a White woman seven decades ago, making partial and belated amends for one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of Florida’s Jim Crow era.
By Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The families of the “Groveland Four” got some closure Monday after Florida officially cleared four young Black men wrongly accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl in 1949. Circuit Court Judge Heidi Davis in Lake County, Florida, granted the State’s motion to posthumously di…
The men, known as the Groveland Four, were cleared on Monday after a Florida prosecutor said “a complete breakdown of the criminal justice system” led to the charges in 1949.
A Florida judge on Monday exonerated four Black men who were wrongly accused of raping a teenage White girl more than seven decades ago in what is considered one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of the state's Jim Crow-era history.
Four young Black men falsely accused of raping a white woman more than 70 years ago in Florida — were exonerated Monday. Known as the Groveland Four, the cases became a travesty of justice that has marred Florida’s history.
