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Innocence Project New Orleans and Innocence Project Urge Supreme Court to Hold that Constitution Requires Unanimous Jury Verdicts

Organizations previously filed amicus brief highlighting those wrongfully convicted by non-unanimous juries October 7, 2019 – Today, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in Ramos v. Louisiana, in which the Court will decide whether the U.S. Constitution requires…

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When eyewitness testimony is wrong | CBS This Morning

By Erin Moriarty When eyewitness testimony is wrong Eyewitness testimony, once considered the gold standard of evidence, can often result in wrongful convictions. Of those who have been exonerated by DNA evidence, it’s estimated that faulty eyewitness testimony is responsible…

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A Relentless Jailhouse Lawyer Propels a Case to the Supreme Court | The New York Times

By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON — “For 23 years, I was a jailhouse lawyer,” said Calvin Duncan, a former inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. “That was my assigned job.” He had a 10th-grade education, and he was serving…

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Louisiana improving how it handles eyewitness testimony, Innocence Project New Orleans leader says | The Center Square

By David Jacobs Recent legislation is changing how Louisiana’s legal system handles eyewitness testimony, the executive director of Innocence Project New Orleans said Monday. Jee Park told the Baton Rouge Press Club a law that went into effect this year…

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‘When They See Us’ could apply to Louisiana, too | Nola.com/The Times-Picayune

By Emily Maw, Guest Columnist Those who regulate the legal profession would do well to observe the reaction of the Netflix-watching public to Ava DuVernay’s series, “When They See Us.” The series harrowingly chronicles the pain of five black and…

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New Louisiana Law Allows Expert Testimony on the Flaws of Eyewitness Accounts of Crimes | The Root

By Monique Judge In 1971, when Wilbert Jones was just 19 years old, he was arrested and charged with kidnapping a nurse at gunpoint from the parking lot of a hospital in Baton Rouge, La., and raping her behind a…

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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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