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Glenn Ford might not even have been arrested or indicted for this offence.
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According
to the reports, Glenn Ford had spent 26 years on a death row, charged
with death of a jeweler, Isadore Rozeman, 56 years old. He was charged
with a first-degree murder back in 1984 and was sentenced to death.
Ford
was released from a prison with maximum security, in Angola, LA, on
March 11th. When he was asked by a reporter from WAFB-TV about his
feelings at the moment, he replied "It feels good; my mind is going in
all kind of directions. It feels good.” After that he added, that he
still had some resentment over the people who convicted him: "Yeah,
cause, I've been locked up almot 30 years for something I didn't do…I
can't go back and do anything I should have been doing when I was 35,
38, 40 stuff like that.."
Ford’s
conviction was void on Monday, March 10th, as the State District Judge
took the step. The reason was in new evidence proving he was not present
or involved in any way with Rozeman’s death.
Attorneys
of Ford have claimed they were very pleased to see him finally released
so soon after the new evidence was revealed. According to them, the
reason for him being convicted was that he had been "profoundly
compromised by inexperienced counsel and by the unconstitutional
suppression of evidence, including information from an informant."
Attorneys also mentioned a suppressed police report that involved the
time and the weapon of the murder. "Ford might not even have been
arrested or indicted for this offence."
According
to the law of Louisiana, Ford will receive payments of $25,000 per
every year spend in prison up to $250,000 maximum and an extra of
$80,000 for the loss of his “life opportunities”.
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