Jimmie “Chris” Duncan was released from the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center after spending 27 years on death row for a murder conviction that was vacated due to doubts about the evidence used to convict him.
Jimmie “Chris” Duncan was released from death row after 27 years after Judge Alvin Sharp ruled that “clear and convincing evidence proves (Duncan) is factually innocent in the alleged murder of Haley Oliveaux,” due to the fraudulent forensics of Drs. Steven Hayne and Michael West.
Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, who has been on death row for 27 years, was declared innocent by a judge in April 2023, but remains imprisoned due to the discredited bite mark analysis evidence used to convict him in the 1993 murder of 2-year-old Haley Oliveaux.
A Louisiana judge has dismissed the conviction of Jimmie Christian Duncan, a man who spent 26 years on death row for the death of his girlfriend’s toddler daughter, after new evidence showed that the bite mark analysis used to convict him was scientifically invalid.
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