Following a Verite News and ProPublica investigation, a district judge vacated the death sentence of Jimmie Duncan, whose 1998 murder conviction was based on allegedly fabricated bite mark analysis.

At the time of Haley’s death, Duncan was living with Haley’s mother, Allison Oliveaux, in West Monroe, a struggling town about 280 miles northwest of New Orleans.

Duncan’s case fits with a long tradition of wrongful convictions in Louisiana. Between 1976 and 2015, an astonishing 80 percent of the state’s capital sentences were later reversed—nine ...

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose 1998 conviction for killing his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter was ...

Prosecutors have asked a state appeals court to reinstate the death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was nullified in April after his attorneys argued that it ...

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 ...

On April 25, Judge Alvin Sharp of the 4th Judicial District in Ouachita Parish set aside the murder conviction of Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, who has spent 27 years on death row for a crime he did ...

Prosecutors fighting the release of death row inmate Jimmie Duncan after a judge found him “factually innocent” of raping and ...

A Cook County sheriff's deputy was killed while vacationing in Turks and Caicos on Saturday, authorities said. The victim's only son spoke with ABC7 as he mourns the tragic loss.