Associated Press
WILMINGTON, N.C. — A judge says a North Carolina man who was jailed as a teenager for murder 28 years ago can be released from prison once he posts bond.
North Carolina Superior Court Judge W. Douglas Parsons ruled Thursday that there was not enough evidence to justify 43-year-old Johnny Small’s conviction for the 1988 murder.
Parson’s decision came after Small’s teenage buddy testified this week he was pressured by police to testify at the murder trial that both were at the scene. David Bollinger says a Wilmington homicide investigator made up the story and his grandfather pressured him to lie on the witness stand.
Small has been imprisoned since the 1988 murder of Pam Dreher in Wilmington.
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