70-YEAR - OLD NC MAN WRONGLY CONVICTED 4 DECADES AGO

A 70-year-old man was wrongly convicted in the stabbing deaths of a mother and daughter nearly four decades ago and should be freed from prison, a three-judge panel ruled Friday.
The judges heard from a DNA expert who said none of the evidence collected in the case matched Joseph Sledge. A district attorney apologized to Sledge and promised to reopen the case into the 1976 slayings.
"The system has made a mistake," district attorney Jon David said. "The wrong man is in prison."

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