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State Supreme Court affirms overturning Jones’ 1974 rape conviction; prosecutors won’t retry case | The Advocate (Baton Rouge)

By Grace Toohey Wilbert Jones was fully exonerated Thursday, more than 46 years after being arrested in an aggravated rape case for which he has always maintained his innocence. The Louisiana Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court…

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In Louisiana, You Can Be Sent Away for Life Even If Jurors Say You’re Innocent | Mother Jones

By Olivia Exstrum In 1992, Glenn Davis was a teenager in Avondale, Louisiana, with a baby on the way when he was charged with murder. A witness claimed he saw Davis, along with two of Davis’ cousins, shoot and kill a drug…

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Wrongfully convicted by non-unanimous jury, I spent 15 years in prison for crime I didn’t commit | The Advocate

By Glenn Davis Jr. It was the summer of 1992, a couple of weeks before the beginning of school. I was looking forward to my new baby being born and thinking about completing high school. I had aspirations of going…

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In Louisiana, a fight to end a Jim Crow-era jury law is on the ballot | The Los Angeles Times

By Jenny Jarvie When Glenn Davis was 19, he was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole — even though the jury deciding his fate did not agree on his guilt. Because…

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Innocence Project New Orleans seeks to toss woman’s conviction in Marrero purse-snatching murder | Nola.com / The Times Picayune

By Michelle Hunter The Innocence Project New Orleans is seeking to toss out the conviction of a woman found guilty in a Marrero purse-snatching death based on new evidence that implicates a different suspect, according to the organization. Attorneys with the group…

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It’s time for Louisiana to strip white supremacy from its constitution | The Washington Post

By John Legend It’s been a year since I traveled to Baton Rouge to support a series of reforms to reduce the incarceration rate in Louisiana. Many of those reforms — such as the overhaul of the state’s parole system and modifications…

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Prosecutors must be held accountable for misconduct | Opinion | Nola.com / The Times-Picayune

By Alanah Odoms Hebert When prosecutors prioritize winning convictions over advancing justice and ensuring fair trials, they risk convicting the innocent. Time and time again in Louisiana, innocent lives have been destroyed by wrongful convictions, while the prosecutors responsible have…

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Upgrade planned for criminal suspect identification | Daily Comet

By Natalie Schwartz On Robert Jones’ 44th birthday in 2017, the state of Louisiana dropped all charges against him — charges that had resulted in him spending more than half his life behind bars. At 19, Jones was arrested and…

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Innocence Project New Orleans marks its 17th anniversary, welcomes new director | Nola.com / The Times-Picayune

By Sue Strachan The theme for the 17th annual Innocence Project New Orleans Gala was “Together We Persist,” recognizing the persistence over the years of IPNO staff and interns in solving cases, as well as the persistence that its clients and…

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Prosecutor faces possible discipline over wrongful conviction in 1996 Waggaman killing| The New Orleans Advocate

By Matt Sledge In the latest skirmish over claims of prosecutorial misconduct in Louisiana, a nonprofit law firm is asking the state Supreme Court to suspend the prosecutor who oversaw what it says was an Avondale man’s wrongful conviction for…

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  • Men who served decades in prison win freedom after St. Bernard DA agrees they were wrongly convicted | Nola.com/The Advocate (New Orleans)

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