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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jack Brook and Sara Cline

Louisiana death row conviction overturned as man's lawyers cite faulty forensic analysis

A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate's legal team argued was based on “junk science.”

Jimmie Duncan was originally convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 after being accused by prosecutors of raping and drowning his girlfriend's toddler in a bathtub.

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