By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
The Virginia Supreme Court unanimously refused Friday to exonerate a former Navy SEAL trainee in the abduction and murder of a woman he met at a Virginia Beach nightclub in 1995, ruling that another man's confession that he alone strangled the victim was insufficient to prove Dustin Turner was innocent.
In the affidavit that was the basis for Turner's appeal, Brown said: "We were sitting there talking and the next thing you know I reached up and choked Jennifer.
In the second one, Brown said Miss Evans briefly "revived" and he had to choke her a second time.