‘It Took So Long’: 53-Year-Old New Orleans Man Freed from Prison After 36 Years Using the Same Evidence That Could Have Cleared Him at Trial
Sullivan Walter, 53, of New Orleans, Louisiana was wrongfully convicted for a crime he did not commit at 17 years old, making him the fifth-longest incarceration of any juvenile in the United States. He was recently released from prison after 36 years behind bars — the fifth-longest wrongful incarceration of any juvenile in the United…