Louisiana Judges Systematically Ignored Prisoners' Petitions Without Review — ProPublica

The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard.

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