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In 1996, Judge Gregory Weeks sentenced Daniel Green to life in prison for the fatal shooting of James Jordan, the father of NBA great Michael Jordan. On Tuesday, Weeks petitioned North Carolina’s parole commission to release Green. The judge said a forensic blood analyst in the case failed to disclose that a blood-like substance found in the car where Jordan was killed might not have been his blood, ABC News reports. That could have changed the outcome of the murder trial, and Weeks told the state panel that the fact that the test results were omitted has haunted him since 1996, people at the …

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