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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
