He spent nearly 30 years on death row. Then everything changed
A Louisiana Supreme Court ruling overturned Jimmie “Chris” Duncan’s 1998 murder conviction and freed him after judges questioned unreliable bite mark evidence that sent him to death row for nearly 27 years.
WEST MONROE, La. — A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row walked away from the possibility of execution after the state’s highest court overturned his murder conviction, ruling that the forensic evidence used to convict him was unreliable and could no longer stand, NBC News reported.