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Jimmie Duncan
Coverage of Jimmie Duncan in the Nexus archive.
- Video helps free man from death row
A Louisiana man was recently released after nearly three decades on death row for a murder multiple judges now agree never happened. Jimmie Duncan won his freedom with the help of a video that the jury did not see in his trial.
- Louisiana death row prisoner freed after bite mark evidence deemed ‘scientifically indefensible’
Jimmie Duncan was freed after the Louisiana Supreme Court overturned his 1998 conviction for killing Haley Oliveaux, citing flawed bite mark evidence. The court ruled that new evidence showed the forensic analysis used to convict Duncan was scientifically invalid.