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20 Sep 2023, 10:19 am
This Wrongful Conviction Day (Oct. 2), Innocence Project New Orleans is hosting a rally at the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court urging justice for all defendants on death row. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 4:00 am
However, the Court of Orleans Parish Civil District Court clerk stamped Brown’s petition as having been filed on January 13, 2015. [read post]
20 Jan 2023, 11:28 am
He was held pre-trial in the Orleans Parish Jail until 2011 when he was tried for capital murder, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. [read post]
19 Sep 2022, 9:37 am
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Vanessa Fano, sister of Jonathan Fano who died in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana; Belinda L. [read post]
27 Apr 2021, 7:30 am
Wallace (March on Selma) as well as his reform of the Alabama prison system in Pugh v. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 5:01 am
Interestingly, the complaint alleges that in October of 2019, the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans permanently enjoyed the owner from working as a tax return preparer in Louisiana. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:07 am
There are dozens of district attorneys on the ballot across Louisiana this year — including in Orleans Parish, where District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro is stepping down after 12 years of pushing ineffective “tough on crime” policies. [read post]
8 May 2020, 10:50 am
On the outside, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office filed the first of four separate appeals of the court’s bail order, delaying his release. [read post]
7 May 2020, 1:46 pm
” The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office is appealing this decision. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 11:29 am
As flood waters rose, deputies at the Orleans Parish Prison abandoned their posts and left hundreds of people in their cells, some standing in sewage-tainted water up to their chests in the dark, powerless jail. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 8:00 am
This victory built off of our lawsuit in 2017 challenging Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s use of fraudulent subpoenas to jail witnesses of crimes. [read post]
1 Dec 2019, 4:59 am
In Orleans Parish, Derwyn Bunton decided to do the unthinkable. [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 8:41 am
He was 17 years old, and as he was arrested three weeks before Hurricane Katrina, he suffered enormously in the Orleans Parish Prison, along with other inmates. [read post]
30 Aug 2019, 12:30 pm
Separate panels both unanimously ruled that criminal court judges in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, have an unconstitutional conflict of interest when they collect fines and fees and issue arrest warrants if defendants don't pay up. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 6:30 am
Third, and most surprising, Orleans Parish jurors, particularly during the 1920s, sent white killers to the gallows at a higher rate than African American killers. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 2:00 pm
More than 10 years ago, as Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, local officials abandoned prisoners, and some staff, in the Orleans Parish Prison with no electricity and chest-high floodwaters. [read post]
After 38 Years of Wrongful Incarceration, Malcolm Alexander is Thankful for Love, Family and Freedom
21 Nov 2018, 9:15 am
Photo: Innocence Project New Orleans. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 1:39 pm
On June 19, 2018, Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) client Gerald Manning walked out of prison at age 59 as a free man—the first time he’s experienced freedom in his adult life. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 11:34 am
Thompson spent 18 years in prison, including 14 years on death row. [read post]
31 Jan 2018, 4:26 pm
In fact, within an hour of one another, our clients Kevin Bailey in Chicago and Malcolm Alexander in Jefferson Parish were exonerated and released from prison. [read post]
