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The Conviction Review Unit of the Davidson County District Attorney’s office got off to a slow start. Created in 2017, it took action on a case for the first time in 2020 when its work led to the decision not to pursue a new trial in the case of William Arnold after Arnold’s 2013 child-rape conviction was thrown out. But in August 2020, DA Glenn Funk hired longtime defense attorney Sunny Eaton to run the unit. She said her mandate was to act with urgency, and she has. In the past year, Eaton and her team have worked to see two men cleared of wrongful murder convictions, and from what we hear, she’s not slowing down.

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