Jack Betts points out another Wilmington 10 connection.
In a post on This Old State, the Charlotte Observer editor writes that Rep. Thomas Wright's attorney has a connection to Wright's older brother's conviction in a politically charged case from the 1970s.
And by the way: Yes, Prof. Joyner is the same lawyer who did much of the work 30 years ago on the case of the Wilmington 10, where he represented Rep. Wright’s brother Joe, who was falsely accused and sent to prison on charges of firebombing a grocery store in Wilmington in 1971. Courts later overturned his conviction.
Wright has said that the emotional effects of the case on his family were "horrendous."
Betts adds that Joyner was also a vice chairman of the Wilmington Race Riot Commission, which looked into the legislature and state newspaper's role in a racially motivated 1898 coup.
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