false confession

Robert Davis just wants to go home. His case was the subject of a Hook cover story last June.

Innocent kid? Davis clemency petition inches toward governor

Robert Davis just wants to go home.While Michael Hash recently was freed after a judge's ruling of police and prosecutorial misconduct, another Central Virginian controversially convicted as a teen remains in prison, waiting for his clemency petition to reach the governor.
Robert Paul Davis says his confession to murder was coerced.

Case not closed: Special prosecutor named in Crozet murders

New allegations and a pending a clemency petition have prompted the naming of a special prosecutor in the case of Robert Davis, currently jailed for a 2003 double murder in Crozet that he (as well as one of those convicted in the homicides) is saying that he didn't commit.
Robert Davis said he wasn't there the night Nola Charles and her toddler were killed. Now one of his accusers says that, too.

Double recantation: Is an innocent man in jail for the Crozet murders?

It was the crime that rocked Crozet: a mother found stabbed to death in bed, her three-year-old son dead from the smoke of a cover-up fire. Amid whispers of witchcraft, four neighborhood teens were arrested, and three are doing time today in state prisons. One of them, Rock

Gov. Kaine pardons 3 of Norfolk Four

The Hook's April 10, 2008, cover story on the Norfolk Four Governor Tim Kaine granted conditional pardons August 6 to three of the four men convicted for the rape and mur
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