BY LEA SKENE and JACQUELINE DEROBERTIS It was late one morning in December 1982 when a Baton Rouge housewife saw someone approaching her home in the city’s Hundred Oaks neighborhood. She opened the door a crack, unsure if it was…
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By Thomas Fuller All it took was for technicians in a crime lab to run the fingerprints collected at the scene of a rape through a national database. Within hours, the experts had established a match with a serial rapist….
By Lea SkeneArchie Williams stepped out of the 19th Judicial District courthouse and into the sunshine Thursday afternoon surrounded by relatives and lawyers — his first taste of freedom after more than 36 years in prison for a crime he…
By Melinda Morris Innocence may have had humble beginnings, being born on the grounds of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, but now, she’s royalty. The black Labrador Retriever is Princess Royale of the Krewe of Barkus for 2019. Read…
By Kenley Hargett and Josh Harvison SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) – A California man will walk out of prison this week a free man thanks to help from the Innocence Project New Orleans. Eric Prudholm was found guilty on charges of…
DNA testing has cleared a man sentenced to life in prison for raping a woman in front of her husband and children at a Bossier City motel. Eric Prudholm, 58, has been jailed since 1981. A Bossier Parish jury convicted…
John Floyd was trimming the trees in his sister’s yard when he got the news just before Thanksgiving.More than 37 years after his arrest for a 1980 killing in the French Quarter, and months after a federal judge set him…
By Emily Maw, guest columnist No one deserves accolades for having a job for a long time. Pascal F. Calogero, who died in New Orleans on Dec. 20, should not be remembered as the longest-serving Louisiana Supreme Court justice. It is true that…
By Heather Nolan Prosecutors in District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office have filed motions to vacate John Floyd’s 1982 murder conviction, and to dismiss their case against him. Floyd, who served 36 years of a life sentence before he was freed from…
By Matt Sledge New Orleans prosecutors said Tuesday they will drop their case against John Floyd, the onetime Angola lifer who had his murder conviction overturned last year. District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said in a statement that the absence of…
