Legal Opinion
Woodfox v. Foti
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 24, 2010No. 08-30958PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal from the district court’s grant of a writ of habeas corpus, we are confronted by a crime that is now nearly forty years old and the problems that arise when a defendant is re-tried decades after an initial conviction. Petitioner-Appellee Albert Woodfox, an inmate in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana, was originally convicted in 1973 for the murder of prison guard Brent Miller. His conviction was eventually overturned in state court post-conviction proceedings, but the State re-indicted him and proceeded to a second trial in 1998. By that…
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