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Governor Edwards signs law allowing expert testimony on problems with eyewitness IDs | NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune

By Emily Lane Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday (June 5) signed a new law that allows for experts to testify in criminal trials about the science behind problems with eyewitness identifications. Forty-eight other states and the federal court system already…

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Guest column: Allow testimony on witness identification | The Advocate (Baton Rouge)

BY NANCY FRANKLIN Thanks to the efforts of organizations like Innocence Project New Orleans, Louisiana has the second highest rate of exonerations per capita in the country. Such a statistic gives the state something to be proud of. But what…

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Serial rapist went free while another man spent decades behind bars — until his exoneration last week | The Advocate (Baton Rouge)

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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He Spent 36 Years Behind Bars. A Fingerprint Database Cleared Him in Hours | The New York Times

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….

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Man exonerated in 1982 Baton Rouge rape after fingerprint technology shows match to serial rapist | The Advocate (Baton Rouge)

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…

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Freed prisoner’s pup is now princess of Barkus 2019 | Nola.com / The Times-Picayune

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…

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Man to be released from Louisiana prison thanks to DNA evidence | KSLA News 12

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…

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DNA clears man who’s spent 37 years behind bars for a Bossier City rape | KTBS

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…

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John Floyd reflects on 36 years in prison after DA drops case: ‘I forgive the cops who set me up’ | Nola.com / The Times-Picayune

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…

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Pascal Calogero changed the way Louisiana’s justice system treats poor defendants

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…

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