‘God gave me the biggest Christmas present,’ mother says after man freed from life sentence ‘God gave me the biggest Christmas present,’ mother says after man freed from life sentence By Matt Sledge “The judge said life, but the Lord…
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Kendall Gordon will be the 40th innocent person exonerated in Louisiana or Mississippi by Innocence Project of New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS — After spending more than 12 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Kendall Gordon is…
By Matt Sledge | Nola.com After serving a combined 35½ years in prison, two men were freed from Louisiana prisons this week after St. Bernard Parish District Attorney Perry Nicosia conceded they had been wrongly convicted. The unusual developments, in…
By WDSU Digital Staff NEW ORLEANS — The Innocence Project New Orleans announced Monday that a man who has been imprisoned for 13 and a half years for a murder he did not commit was exonerated. Kaliegh Smith was convicted…
By Matt Sledge Family members of a man who spent nearly 14 years in prison on a now tossed murder conviction clapped in court as prosecutors said Monday they won’t attempt to try him again. With an unusual public apology…
BY PHOEBE JONES “Peacocks are sacred birds, you know,” John Floyd tells me on a cool day in mid-February outside of his home in Ridgeland, Mississippi. We are seated next to a pond behind an unassuming apartment complex off a…
By Jacqueline DeRobertis The LSU Law Center has received a grant to establish a Wrongful Conviction Clinic at the school, allowing law students to review cases of people with claims of innocence. LSU Law, partnering with the Innocence Project New…
By Gerron Jordan Baton Rouge’s Archie Williams was wrongfully convicted of rape and attempted murder in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison at Angola State Penitentiary; once known as the bloodiest prison in America. 36 years later, DNA evidence…
By WDSU Digital Team NEW ORLEANS — The Innocence Project in New Orleans has helped get more than 3,500 masks to those in Louisiana’s prisons. According to organizers, the masks will be distributed to inmates and staff. Group members said…
