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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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…
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…
