“Prosecutors got their conviction, but at a great cost to an innocent man. To make matters worse, defense attorneys did an inadequate job of saving their client.

“Blood and semen evidence that could’ve cleared a Black man’s name in a home-invasion rape was never considered in his trial, and he spent more than 35 years in prison as a result, the longest known wrongful incarceration of a juvenile in Louisiana’s history and the fifth-longest in the nation.

:Sullivan Walter, 53, was freed from state prison on Aug. 25, 2022, after a judge overturned his conviction. The New Orleans man was 17 years old when he was arrested, prosecuted as an adult and sentenced to 39 years for rape and burglary.”

Read the article by Nyamekye in Atlanta Black Star.

Posted by rbchatelle on Thursday, September 1st, 2022 @ 11:21AM
Categories: prisons and prisoners

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