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Greg Taylor was exonerated on February 17, 2010 by a three-judge panel who dismantled a murder conviction that robbed him of nearly two decades of freedom. He was the first North Carolinian freed through the Innocence Inquiry Commission, a pioneering group created in 2006 to examine claims of innocence. Greg was convicted in 1993 of murder in the death of Jacquetta Thomas, a Raleigh woman who was beaten to death and ditched in a secluded cul de sac in east Raleigh. Greg swore his innocence from the start. By the time he appealed to the Innocence Inquiry Commission in 2006, he'd exhausted every appeal - and hope - of clearing his name. He received a pardon from Bev Perdue on May 21, 2010. Prior to prison, Greg worked in telecommunications. He currently lives in Durham.