Earlier this month, Calvin Duncan folded his notes into the chest pocket of his trusty tweed blazer and drove his white pickup truck to Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in Mid-City.
He was headed to a press conference on the courthouse’s front steps, where he would defend himself from accusations that he’d lied – accusations that came from his political opponent and from the highest levels of the state of Louisiana.
“They can’t scare me, because I’ve been here before,” Duncan said, as he stood on the steps and spoke briefly into a portable microphone.
At age 19, within the walls of this Gothic courthouse, he was convicted of first-degree murder for a crime that he did not commit, despite a fraudulent lineup and descriptions of a chubby killer that did not match his slim teenage frame…