A judge Monday restored the constitutional right to “presumption of innocence” for the Groveland Four, granting a prosecutor’s motion to throw out indictments and convictions that ruined the lives of ...

A judge’s ruling effectively exonerated the late Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas who were falsely accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl The quartet of Black men ...

(NBC) - In the summer of 1949, a 17-year-old lodged an accusation that would thrust the rural Florida community of Groveland into decadeslong turmoil: The white teenager told police she and her ...

Ernest Thomas, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Walter Irvin were cleared in Florida after the four Black men were wrongly accused of raping a white woman 72 years ago A group of four Black men ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago, making partial and belated ...

The quartet of Black men known as the “Groveland Four,” who were falsely accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl more than seven decades ago, were effectively exonerated of all related charges, ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago, making partial and belated ...

GROVELAND, Fla. — In 1949, the lives of four young Black men changed forever after a damaging accusation uprooted the entire community of Groveland. At the time, 17-year-old Norma Padgett told police ...