ORLANDO, Fla. — A judge Monday restored the constitutional right to “presumption of innocence” for the Groveland Four, granting a prosecutor’s motion to throw out indictments and convictions that ...

The motion to dismiss comes more than 70 years after the alleged incident. More than 70 years after four Black men were accused of raping a white woman in 1949, Florida State Attorney Bill Gladson has ...

FLORIDA -- The families of the "Groveland Four" got some closure Monday after Florida officially cleared four young Black men wrongly accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl in 1949. The video ...

On Monday, a Florida judge righted a historical wrong. It began with an accusation of rape 72 years ago in the small town of Groveland, Florida. On July 16, 1949, 17-year-old Norma Padgett, who is ...

A Florida circuit court judge has cleared the charges against four young Black men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago. The court's ruling Monday effectively ...

Sheriff Willis McCall and an unidentified man with Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin in the Lake County Jail, 1949 Credit: Photo via Florida Memory Project A Central Florida judge on ...

It took seven decades, but a Lake County Circuit Court Judge cleared charges for the four Black men known as the Groveland Four and exonerated them on Monday. Last month, local prosecutor Bill Gladson ...

The quartet of Black men known as the “Groveland Four,” who were falsely accused of raping a 17-year-old White girl more than seven decades ago, were effectively exonerated of all related charges, ...

(NBC) - In the summer of 1949, a 17-year-old lodged an accusation that would thrust the rural Florida community of Groveland into decadeslong turmoil: The white teenager told police she and her ...