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State of Louisiana Must Not Appeal Federal Ruling Overturning Conviction in Angola 3 Case | Amnesty International USA

22.3.13

State of Louisiana Must Not Appeal Federal Ruling Overturning Conviction in Angola 3 Case | Amnesty International USA


(BATON ROUGE) – Amnesty International called on Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell today not to appeal a federal court ruling overturning the conviction of Albert Woodfox of the ‘Angola 3’ for the second-degree murder of a prison guard in 1972. Amnesty International has raised serious human rights concerns over the case for many years.
In a ruling on Tuesday, Judge James Brady of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana found that racial discrimination lay behind the under-representation of African- Americans selected to serve as grand jury forepersons in the jurisdiction in which Woodfox, 66, who is African-American, was retried after his original conviction was overturned in 1992.

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