Confession failed to free man convicted in Fayetteville murders, who has died as a prisoner
RALEIGH — Lee Wayne Hunt died a prisoner, officially deemed guilty of a double murder — even though a co-defendant absolved him in a conversation with a lawyer that remained secret for decades. Attorney Staples Hughes said a client who also was convicted in the case told him not long after the 1984 slayings of a Fayetteville couple that Hunt wasn’t involved. Hughes risked disbarment when he told a judge in 2007 about the confession, after the client, Jerry […]
