Word: norfolk
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Eight years ago, Derek Tice walked out onto his porch and found an entire SWAT team with all their guns pointed at him. He was convicted of murder, twice, in two separate trials, and sentenced to life in prison. To many observers in Norfolk, Virginia, at the time, it had seemed like an open-and-shut case - a tape of Tice's own confession to the 1997 rape and murder of Navy newlywed Michelle Moore Bosko, 18, was played for the juries. But Tice and two other former Navy sailors convicted in the murder later insisted that they had fabricated...
...years ago, a team of lawyers, approached by the nonprofit Innocence Project, took on the case of the Norfolk-based sailors and spent thousands of pro bono hours analyzing the record and conducting interviews with witnesses, experts and former jurors. In the process, they found numerous inconsistencies between the confessions, essentially the only hard evidence offered in the trials, and the crime scene evidence. For example, Tice had confessed that six men had used a claw and hammer to break open the door to Moore-Bosko's apartment, but police found no signs of forced entry or struggle. Deborah Boardman...
...George Allen ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of modern elections. Webb was an upstart, party-switching late entry into the race; Allen was being crowned before the race had even begun. In the middle of a mandatory paragraph allowing that Allen might not win, Norfolk's Virginian-Pilot didn't - in April 2006 - think they were going out on much of a limb in calling Allen's victory a foregone conclusion: "not when the officeholder is so full of vitality as to have a legitimate shot at a presidential nomination two years down the road...
...exacting revenge on Yale. The Crimson lost a dual meet to the Elis at Boston’s Franklin Park on Sept. 22. All seven men’s runners finished within 38 seconds of Barrett, who crossed the finish line 58 seconds after winner David Kemboi of Norfolk State. The Crimson women placed their top five finishers within 18 seconds of junior Sarah Bourne, who completed the 6000-meter women’s open in a time of 22:39. But the Harvard women needed more than finish-line continuity to pace the field: junior Lindsey Scherf missed...
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