I would imagine that Green was denied parole because he has maintained his innocence from the beginning.
He is in jail because his friend and accused accomplice Larry Demery confessed so he could get a more favorable sentence. In that confession, he IDed Green as the trigger man. There is a very good documentary that takes a strong look at the case. Depending on how you look at it, there is evidence that could sway your opinion both ways on who you think committed the murder.
There isn’t a question that Green was caught in 4k with James Jordan possessions and was spotted around town driving his car, but he contends that was only after someone else who he believes with Demery murdered him.
One of the men convicted in the murder of James Jordan, father of basketball legend Michael Jordan, was denied parole, according to Greg Thomas, a spokesperson for the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
“Daniel Green hasn’t received justice since the day he was arrested, so I didn’t have much hope that it would start with the parole process,” said Christine Mumma, Green’s attorney and executive director for the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence.
Green admits that he helped his co-defendant and best friend at the time, Larry Demery, get rid of James Jordan’s body, but Green has maintained that he wasn’t there when Jordan was killed.
Key to the new evidence is a statement from Demery, who, Mumma says, told her Green was not there when Jordan was killed. She said she believes Demery will testify to that fact – contradicting his testimony from Green’s original trial – if a new hearing is allowed.
She also cited errors by judges and Green’s defense attorneys that she thinks warrant further consideration, including a witness who says she saw Green at a party at the time of the murder.
That is probably the strongest evidence in Green’s case that several people said he was at a house party at the same time that James Jordan was shot, but that was not presented at his original trial.
It will be another three years before he can petition to be paroled again.
Flip the pages for Green telling his side of the story.