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…
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…
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