Before his mandatory retirement in 2002 as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, I. Beverly Lake Jr. pushed for the creation of an Actual Innocence Commission, a group dedicated to ensuring that North Carolina did not keep people in prison if those people could prove their innocence.
Lake recounted today for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society the process that led to his study group and the eventual formation of an Innocence Inquiry Commission. In the video clip below, Lake remembers the mix of reactions to his initial proposal.
2:40 p.m. update: Click play below to watch the full 43:01 event.
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