A four page report, buried in the unredacted FBI files that I gained access to after filing a Freedom of Information Act Request, contained the results of the medical examination performed by the Leesburg, Florida physician just hours after Norma Padgett claimed she’d been raped by the four Groveland Boys. As I note in my book, Dr. Geoffrey Binneveld told the FBI he observed no evidence of sexual assault, but admitted that, if called to testify about whether Padgett was raped, he’d have to say, “I don’t know.”

Now, the families of the Groveland Boys are using this medical report to request that Florida Governor Rick Scott re-examine the evidence, as well as their convictions.  Below is the story from the Chicago Tribune.

LADY LAKE, Florida (Reuters) - The families of the four young black men accused in the questionable 1949 rape claim of a white woman in the then-segregated American South, are asking Florida Governor Rick Scott to re-examine the evidence and clear the mens' names.

"I just want the record to reflect that Charles Greenlee was not involved, if anything in fact even happened," said Greenlee's 62-year-old daughter Carol Crawley who was born four months after her father's arrest for the rape. "It's to clear my father's name because he's innocent."

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