Calvin Duncan was back at work Monday at Loyola University’s Jesuit Social Research Institute after months on the campaign trail, savoring his dominant win against incumbent Darren Lombard in the runoff for Orleans Parish Criminal Clerk of Court.

Duncan, 62, called his pending job a dream since he was locked up for murder 40 years ago and working as an inmate counsel at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, before his release in 2011 under a plea deal to lesser charges.

Duncan was convicted of murder in the 1980s for a killing in Treme, though he maintained his innocence over decades as he advocated for others from prison. A judge in 2021 vacated his conviction based on his innocence claim. His struggles obtaining records for himself and others from Orleans Parish played prominen

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