Watch Joseph Sledge being released from prison

4,523 views · Published 23 January 2015 · 0:43 · Indexed 31 October 2026

Channel: The News & Observer · 2015 · News & Politics

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Watch as Joseph Sledge, 70, is released from jail in Whiteville, N.C., after he spent more than half his life in prison for a crime he didn't commit after judges exonerated him on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015.  He is hugged by his sister, Barbara Kinlaw and Christine Mumma, director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence.  Video by Mandy Locke, [email protected]

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