Case Update: On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, Joseph Dick, Derek Tice, Danial Williams, and Eric Wilson, four innocent Navy veterans known as the ‘Norfolk Four,’ received long-awaited full pardons based on their actual innocence from Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. The Norfolk Four were wrongfully convicted of rape and murder in 1997; their case involved troubling issues of police misconduct, false confessions, and unconstitutionally suppressed evidence. See the Press Release here; and the Statement from the Governor’s Office here.
News Update: On October 27, 2010, Detective Robert Glenn Ford, the detective responsible for the wrongful conviction of the Norfolk Four, was convicted of multiple counts of extortion and lying to federal law enforcement officials. Read a press release issued by the legal team here
Norfolk Four
News Update: On October 27, 2010, Detective Robert Glenn Ford, the detective responsible for the wrongful conviction of the Norfolk Four, was convicted of multiple counts of extortion and lying to federal law enforcement officials. Read a press release issued by the legal team here
Norfolk Four
Proof of Innocence
Click here to Read About a Recently-Published Book on The Norfolk Four entitled: “The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four,” by Tom Wells & Richard A. Leo.
An objective, comprehensive review of this case leaves no doubt that each man – Danial, Joe, Derek, and Eric – was wrongfully accused and is innocent. This crime was committed by one, and only one, person – Omar Ballard. The Commonwealth’s DNA tests proved to a degree of certainty in the billions that Ballard, and only Ballard, is the source of the blood and semen left by the killer at at the crime scene. None of the physical evidence linked anyone other than Ballard to the crime. When Ballard was finally questioned by the police, he told them repeatedly that he committed the crime alone. All that links these men to this crime is a series of coerced and demonstrably false confessions.
Click here to Read About a Recently-Published Book on The Norfolk Four entitled: “The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four,” by Tom Wells & Richard A. Leo.
