N Carolina man declared innocent in 1979 dorm murder
RALEIGH — A three-judge panel has ruled that a mentally ill man convicted of killing a North Carolina college student 40 years ago is innocent.Ruling as part of North Carolina’s innocence process, the judges agreed Thursday that 66-year-old James Blackmon didn’t fatally stab Helena Payton in 1979 at what’s now St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh.Blackmon was sentenced in 1988, about nine years after the murder, because the case had gone cold until 1983.Both […]
