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IN RE BROWN

Record No. 161422.

810 S.E.2d 444 (2018)

IN RE: Sherman BROWN.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 22, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Friedman ( Peter Neufeld ; Matthew W. S. Estes ; Parisa Dehghani-Tafti ; Steven D. Rosenfield ), for petitioner.

Alice T. Armstrong , Senior Assistant Attorney General ( Mark R. Herring , Attorney General), for respondent.

PRESENT: All the Justices

UPON A PETITION FOR A WRIT OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE

OPINION BY JUSTICE D. ARTHUR KELSEY

In 1970, a jury found Sherman Brown guilty of first-degree murder of a four-year-old child. The child's mother ("M.B.") testified that, after she rejected Brown's demand for sex, he knocked her unconscious, and upon awaking, she discovered that she had been repeatedly stabbed. While she was unconscious, her four-year-old son had been stabbed to death. Brown did...

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