Former chief justice who pushed for innocence process dies
RALEIGH — The conservative North Carolina chief justice who led the way for the state’s unique innocence process has died at age 85.His son-in-law, Tom Neal, said I. Beverly Lake Jr. died Thursday at the retirement center where he lived.Lake was chief justice when a string of high-profile wrongful convictions in North Carolina caught his attention. In 2002, he convened a commission to review how innocent people are convicted and how to free them.That led to the […]
