Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly two decades in a North Carolina prison for a murder he did not commit, will speak at Elon University this month in conjunction with a documentary film screening about his case.
The even is free and open to the public.
WHAT: “The Trials of Darryl Hunt” film screening and discussion
DATE: Monday, April 21, 2008
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Koury Business Center at Elon University (Digital Theater, room 101)
The discussion and film screening are sponsored by the Elon Center for Public Affairs, the Elon School of Law Innocence Project, the Elon Pre-Law Society and the Multicultural Center at Elon.
In 1984, Hunt was convicted of raping and murdering a young newspaper reporter in Winston-Salem, N.C. No physical evidence linked him to the crime, though witnesses placed him at the scene, and one man claimed he saw Hunt leave a hotel bathroom the morning of the killing while leaving behind bloody towels. That claim was false.
DNA evidence cleared Hunt of the rape in 1994, though neither the judge nor appellate court would grant a new trial. In 2003, another man – whose DNA was found on the victim – confessed to the crime. “The Trials of Darryl Hunt” has won numerous documentary awards and was selected for the Sundance Film Festival documentary competition in 2006.
Hunt and his attorney, Mark Rabil, will attend the screening. Chris Mumma, legal counsel for the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, will moderate the discussion afterward.