Dontae Sharpe, a Charlotte, North Carolina, resident, breathed a heavy sigh of relief Friday upon receiving a pardon for a murder he didn’t commit – after spending 24 years in prison.
Sharpe, 46, who’s Black, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 1994 murder of a White man in North Carolina. After inconsistencies in a teenage witness’s testimony, no physical evidence tying Sharpe to the crimeand a pathologist’s testimony added as new evidence, Sharpe was exonerated in 2019.
“I’m free now, and the burden of carrying around that felony reputation of being a killer or murder, it was gone,” Sharpe told CNN on Monday. “My family name has been cleared. Man, you know, it feels good.”…
