Attorney general to appeal ruling that cleared ex-Seal trainee in slaying

Virginia Attorney General Bill Mims will ask the full Virginia Court of Appeals to review a panel's ruling that cleared a former Navy SEAL trainee in the abduction and murder of a Georgia college student.

"I have decided to seek review by the full Court of Appeals in the case of Dustin Turner," Mims said in a statement.

"The three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals was sharply divided. It is imperative that a case of such significance be decided by the full court."

In a 2-1 decision Tuesday, a panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals granted a writ of actual innocence to Dustin Turner, 34.

Turner has spent 14 years in prison for the 1995 slaying of Emory University student Jennifer Evans in Virginia Beach. Another man now says he alone killed Evans, and all Turner did was help dispose of her body.