Murder conviction could be overturned Friday - msnbc.com

A man convicted of killing a North Carolina A&T professor in 1988 could be exonerated Friday after new technology allowed investigators to identify a different "person of interest."

Lamont Armstrong, now 62, was convicted in the murder of Ernestine Compton on July 12, 1988. Key to the conviction was testimony from a convicted felon who has since said police pressured him to accuse Armstrong.

However, on Friday afternoon, prosecutors will move for a retrial in the case, naming Christopher Bernard Caviness as a "person of interest" in the murder.

Caviness was convicted in the murder of his father in 1989. After his release from prison, he was killed in a car crash in 2010, Greensboro police said.

Caviness was linked to the case after a match to a partial palm print that was lifted from a door frame just above Compton's body. Greensboro police, an independent examiner and the State Crime Laboratory each produced the same match to the print database, Greensboro police said.

Armstrong was convicted in Compton's murder in August 1995, and an appeal in 1996 ruled Armstrong received a fair trial that was free from error.

The investigation was reopened in February 2010, when Greensboro police began working with the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at the Duke Unviersity School of Law. The clinic is made up of mostly students.

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