After only one term in office, voters have ousted Darren Lombard from the Clerk of Criminal Court’s Office.
Lombard lost in his bid for reelection to challenger Calvin Duncan. With 73 percent of precincts reporting, Duncan led Lombard by a two-to-one margin.
Duncan, who served time in the Angola State Penitentiary for a 1981 murder he didn’t commit, founded the Light of Justice program to help others who were wrongly convicted secure their releases from prison. Duncan taught himself the law while incarcerated and later graduated from the Tulane University Law School…