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ESTATE OF JACOBS v. STATE

No. COA15-146.

775 S.E.2d 873 (2015)

The ESTATE OF Jerry JACOBS, The Estate of Ann Shepard, The Estate Of Connie Tindall, and The Estate of Joe (William Dallas) Wright, Plaintiffs, v. STATE of North Carolina, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 4, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ferguson Chambers & Sumter, P.A., by James E. Ferguson, II , Charlotte and Irving Joyner , Durham, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Attorney General, Roy Cooper , by Special Deputy Attorneys General, Amar Majmundar and Olga E. Vysotskya de Brito , for the State.

In this case, we must determine whether the estates of four deceased persons may recover from the government compensation for the wrongful convictions of decedents who received posthumous pardons of innocence. Although both the State and this Court solemnly acknowledge the profound harm caused by the wrongful imprisonment of any person...

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