Wilson man freed after years in prison won't be retried for murder
RALEIGH — A North Carolina man who was once on death row for a shopkeeper’s slaying won’t be retried in the case that put him behind bars for more than 40 years. The prosecutor filed a dismissal notice in the case of 81-year-old Charles Ray Finch of Wilson, who was released last month from Greene Correctional Institution in Maury. In the notice dated June 14, Wilson County District Attorney Robert Evans wrote that a retrial of the 1976 case is “impractical/impossible” […]
