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Could Groveland Four Exoneration Lead to More Exonerations?
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6:32Now PlayingIn July 1949, a white woman wrongfully accused three Black men and one teenager in a case that came to be known as the Groveland Four.
Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin and Samuel Shepherd were arrested and convicted by an all-white jury. The fourth, Ernest Thomas, was murdered by a mob led by the Lake County sheriff shortly after the accusation.
A circuit court judge in Florida cleared the cases against the men and issued a posthumous ruling, an attempt at atone for one of the worst miscarriages of justice of the Jim Crow era.
Gilbert King, who wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys,” joins Charles Blow on “Prime” to discuss.
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