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Michelle Moore-Bosko Trial

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Nicholas P. Wabik Career Technology Center March 28, 2023- May 4, 2023 Background: The Norfolk Four were a group of United States Navy Seal sailors that were charged with the 1997 rape and murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko while stationed in Naval Station Norfolk. This happened in July 1997, in Norfolk Virginia. The four United States navy sailors were: Joseph J. Dick Jr., Derek Tice, Danial Williams, and Eric C. Wilson who were falsely convicted on the rape and murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko. July 8, 1997 an 18-year old Michelle Moore-Bosko was found by her husband dead after being raped, stabbed, and strangled. Michelle Moore-Boskos was an 18-year old female who was married to Bill Bosko who was a 19 year …show more content…

They got married on April 4, 1997. They moved into their own apartment at the Bayshore Gardens complex, apartment F111. After the murder of Michelle, there was no evidence stacked up on anyone that was at the crime scene, so the four navy sailors were falsely convicted because of lack of evidence and intense interrogation tactics. They were charged with were the rape and murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko in 1997. Conviction: In the trial of the four Norfolk sailors, the main reason why they were all convicted was not the proclaimed evidence that wasn’t on the scene, but was the confessions that they were coerced to say during the interrogations. There was virtually no evidence against the four sailors, but the jury sided that they were all guilty. The major problem during the trial was that no evidence was found at the crime scene and the prosecution only badgered the four sailors based on confessions that they were threatened to say or else they …show more content…

I would try to fight the exoneration, but all the evidence leading up to their exoneration showed that they were not associated with the crime so I would be mad, but relieved that four navy sailors are finally out of prison for a crime that they didn’t do. If I was the family of the exonerated sailors I would be very happy that they are finally out of prison and are free, but I would be mad that they were in prison for this long. There are multiple elements of this case that just shock me and has impacted me by this case and how the detectives and prosecutors didnt want to send more time digging deeper into this case earlier to look at the evidence and see these sailors had nothing to do with the rape and murder of Michelle Moore. The prosecution and the interrogation detective should’ve never forced them to a confession and threatened them with the death penalty. I believe they need to be criminally punished for being the main reason that they served too many years of their 20s in prison. The innocence project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at Cardozo Law. Their primary purpose was to correct and prevent the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of innocent people. The innocence project has done a lot to fight the wrongfully imprisoned in America. As of July 2022, the

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