Terence Richardson, one of the two men known as “the Waverly Two” who was acquitted pf a 1988 murder of a Waverly police officer but still sentenced to life in prison was denied a writ of actual innocence in the Court of Appeals of Virginia on Tuesday.
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SUSSEX COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Terence Richardson–one of the two men known as “the Waverly Two” acquitted of a Waverly police officer’s 1988 murder, but still sentenced to life in prison–was denied a writ of actual innocence in the Court of Appeals of Virginia on Tuesday.
Richardson had spent decades there for Allen Gibson’s murder, despite a federal jury found both him and Ferrone Claiborne, the second of the Waverly Two, not guilty. A rare legal maneuver by the federal judge, allowed him to sentence them to life in prison for their federal drug convictions because of their previous state pleas and his personal certainty of their guilt.
