Commission wants judge to look at Deaver testimony
The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission wants a judge to look at whether SBI Agent Duane Deaver should be held in contempt of court.
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The commission voted unanimously at a Friday meeting to bring the case to court.
Executive director Kendra Montgomery-Blinn said she plans to file a motion in Wake County next week asking a judge to look at statements Deaver made at a hearing last year.
Montgomery-Blinn wouldn’t discuss details of the motion.
Deaver denied at a hearing last year that he’d done a second blood test on a sample in a murder case. In fact, a second test was done and came up negative.
That undisclosed information became a crucial factor for attorneys pushing for the freedom of now-exonerated Greg Taylor.
Deaver didn’t return a telephone call seeking comment.
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