Here’s a nice story for the middle of your week, though it begins with tragedy. In Louisiana some 40 years ago, a man named Calvin Duncan was wrongfully convicted a murder. It was a sadly routine case of quick-draw police work and prosecutorial shenanigans. From the Louisiana Illuminator:

The documents revealed discrepancies in the investigation, which was led in Clackemas County by a detective who would later be convicted of illegal wire tapping in a separate case. The same detective had told Duncan he has been identified by his two prominent gold front teeth, which wasn’t true. Mounting issues with the case led then Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro to vacate Duncan’s murder conviction in 2011 and allow him to plead guilty to manslaughter and attempted armed robbery. D

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