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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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Man exonerated in 1982 Baton Rouge rape after fingerprint technology shows match to serial rapist | The Advocate (Baton Rouge)

By Lea SkeneArchie Williams stepped out of the 19th Judicial District courthouse and into the sunshine Thursday afternoon surrounded by relatives and lawyers — his first taste of freedom after more than 36 years in prison for a crime he…

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Freed prisoner’s pup is now princess of Barkus 2019 | Nola.com / The Times-Picayune

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…

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Man to be released from Louisiana prison thanks to DNA evidence | KSLA News 12

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…

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DNA clears man who’s spent 37 years behind bars for a Bossier City rape | KTBS

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…

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John Floyd reflects on 36 years in prison after DA drops case: ‘I forgive the cops who set me up’ | Nola.com / The Times-Picayune

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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Pascal Calogero changed the way Louisiana’s justice system treats poor defendants

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…

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Orleans DA moves to vacate 1982 murder conviction, dismiss case against John Floyd

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…

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John Floyd, once a lifer at Angola, to have murder case dropped, Orleans DA says | The Advocate (New Orleans)

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…

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  • Justice Jam fundraiser to feature live music, experiences from people wrongfully convicted | Lafayette Daily Advertiser
  • ‘God gave me the biggest Christmas present,’ mother says after man freed from life sentence | The Advocate (New Orleans)
  • Man freed after 12 years in prison for a New Orleans murder he didn’t commit | WWLTV
  • IPNO’s Fall 2021 Newsletter
  • 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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