Dustin Allen Turner, a Navy SEAL trainee who’d been sentenced to more than 80 years in prison for the murder of a young woman in 1996, won parole Wednesday afternoon.
Turner’s case has drawn significant attention, including an online webpage dubbed the “Dusty Turner Coalition for Justice.” His supporters believed he was wrongfully convicted in the death of Jennifer L. Evans. Fellow SEAL trainee Billy Joe Brown confessed in 2002 to acting alone in her death.
The decision split members of Virginia’s five-member Parole Board, with three judges voting in his favor.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
