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Jimmy (Superfly) Snuka unfit for murder trial, lawyer says
"A lawyer for legendary wrestler Jimmy Snuka says the Superflys decades in the ring left him too punch-drunk to face murder charges in the 1983 death of his girlfriend...
Snuka was charged Tuesday with murder and involuntary manslaughter in the May 11, 1983, death of his 23-year-old girlfriend Nancy Argentino of Brooklyn..."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...unfit-for-murder-trial-lawyer-says/ar-AAdTAoi
WS thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-for-1983-murder-of-Nancy-Argentino-Lehigh-Co
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Two brothers with low IQs who were coerced into confessing to raping and killing 11-year-old girl released after being wrongfully imprisoned for three decades
"Brothers Henry McCollum, 51, and Leon Brown, 47, will be compensated
Pardoned by North Carolina Gov Pat McCrory and will each get $750,000.."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3113243/2-brothers-seek-normal-life-pardoned.html
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State approves payments to Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
"The state of North Carolina on Wednesday formally approved the payment of $750,000 each to Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, half-brothers who spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder they did not commit.
The action came exactly one year after a Superior Court judge declared the two men innocent of the 1983 murder of an 11-year-old girl in Robeson County..."
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article33400479.html
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California prisoner dies of natural causes after 26 years on death row
"A California prison inmate who spent 26 years on death row for murder has died of natural causes, the fourth so far this year in a state that has not carried out an execution since 2006.
Ronald Harold Seaton, 69, died last week at Marin general hospital near San Francisco, state prison authorities said on Wednesday.
He had been on death row at San Quentin state prison since 1989..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/03/us-usa-california-death-row-idUSKCN0R303320150903
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"A lawyer for legendary wrestler Jimmy Snuka says the Superflys decades in the ring left him too punch-drunk to face murder charges in the 1983 death of his girlfriend...
Snuka was charged Tuesday with murder and involuntary manslaughter in the May 11, 1983, death of his 23-year-old girlfriend Nancy Argentino of Brooklyn..."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...unfit-for-murder-trial-lawyer-says/ar-AAdTAoi
WS thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-for-1983-murder-of-Nancy-Argentino-Lehigh-Co
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Two brothers with low IQs who were coerced into confessing to raping and killing 11-year-old girl released after being wrongfully imprisoned for three decades
"Brothers Henry McCollum, 51, and Leon Brown, 47, will be compensated
Pardoned by North Carolina Gov Pat McCrory and will each get $750,000.."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3113243/2-brothers-seek-normal-life-pardoned.html
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State approves payments to Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
"The state of North Carolina on Wednesday formally approved the payment of $750,000 each to Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, half-brothers who spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder they did not commit.
The action came exactly one year after a Superior Court judge declared the two men innocent of the 1983 murder of an 11-year-old girl in Robeson County..."
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article33400479.html
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California prisoner dies of natural causes after 26 years on death row
"A California prison inmate who spent 26 years on death row for murder has died of natural causes, the fourth so far this year in a state that has not carried out an execution since 2006.
Ronald Harold Seaton, 69, died last week at Marin general hospital near San Francisco, state prison authorities said on Wednesday.
He had been on death row at San Quentin state prison since 1989..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/03/us-usa-california-death-row-idUSKCN0R303320150903
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