‘There Was nothing I Could Do’: New Orleans Man Wrongfully Convicted as Teen for Rape Freed After 36 Years
Blood and semen evidence that could’ve cleared a Black man’s name in a home-invasion rape was never considered in his trial, and he spent more than 35 years in prison as a result, the longest known wrongful incarceration of a juvenile in Louisiana’s history and the fifth-longest in the nation. Sullivan Walter, 53, was freed…