U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond. (Photo by Parker Michels-Boyce for The Virginia Mercury) Marvin Grimm Jr. spent 45 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. He lost his freedom ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Court of Appeals grants a writ of actual innocence, vacating the murder, forcible sodomy and abduction convictions for Marvin Leon Grimm, Jr., who was convicted in 1976 ...

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He is survived by two sons, R. Michael Grimm of Newtown, PA and William R. Grimm Jr. of Kannapolis, NC. There are a sister Joan Reber of Mohrsville, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.