Family fighting nearly 20-year-old non-unanimous murder conviction of man who claimed self-defense

BATON ROUGE – A Baton Rouge family is fighting what they consider the wrongful conviction of their loved one nearly 20 years ago.

In 2007, Cori Williams was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting Raymond Jones. He was sentenced to life without parole.

Jones and Williams had been fighting after Williams claimed Jones had cut the line at Ragusa’s Meat Market on Gus Young. After the initial several swings, Jones bit off part of Williams’ ear…

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