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- 1New Orleans asks Supreme Court to hear Calvin Duncan case▼New Orleans wants the Supreme Court to weigh in on the Calvin Duncan case
The city of New Orleans is asking the US Supreme Court to take up the Calvin Duncan case. Calvin Duncan is a former New Orleans resident wrongfully convicted of murder who spent decades in prison before being exonerated, and whose case has become central to legal fights over compensation for the wrongly convicted in Louisiana. The city's move to seek Supreme Court review keeps the dispute, and questions of accountability for wrongful convictions, in the headlines.