3 pardoned ex-sailors released from Va. prison

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3 pardoned ex-sailors released from Va. prison

The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Aug 8, 2009 10:03:40 EDT

RICHMOND, Va. — Three ex-sailors who received conditional pardons for rape and murder have been released from custody.

Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said Derek Tice and Danial Williams were released from Sussex I State Prison on Thursday evening. Joseph Dick was released Friday.

The three — who along with Eric Wilson were known as the Norfolk Four — spent nearly a decade in prison after confessing to the rape and murder of 18-year-old Michelle Moore-Bosko in 1997. They later claimed they were innocent and that their confessions were coerced.

Gov. Tim Kaine granted the three released men conditional pardons Thursday. Although they are free, the crime remains on their records.

Wilson spent 8½ years in prison for Moore-Bosko’s rape and was released in 2005.

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Rachel Tice, at podium, makes a statement in response to the conditional pardons granted by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine to her son, Derek Tice, on Aug. 6 in Richmond. Tice and two other men, whose family members also gathered for the pardons, were conditionally pardoned for a 1997 rape and murder.

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