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4th Circuit invites governor to act in innocence claim

A Northern Neck man who says he was wrongly stigmatized for 35 years as the killer of a mother of two in Lancaster County could get faster justice from the governor than through the habeas corpus procedure, a federal appeals court panel suggests. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared to lay the innocence claim ...