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"Appeals court to rehear ex-inmate's $15M award"

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"Appeals court to rehear ex-inmate's $15M award": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "A federal appeals court has agreed to rehear a case that resulted in a $15 million award to a former Louisiana death row inmate who was exonerated after 18 years in prison. In December 2008, a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the jury's award to John Thompson, 45, who was convicted in 1985 of killing hotel executive Raymond Liuzza Jr. but acquitted years later after a state appeals court ordered a new trial. In a decision Friday, the full court agreed to hear the case in response to a request by New Orleans District Leon Cannizzaro."

And The Times-Picayune of New Orleans reports today that "Court gives DA's office another chance; Former inmate's judgment challenged."

You can access Wednesday's order (posted online yesterday) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link. The original three-judge panel's unanimous ruling from December 2008 can be accessed here.

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).

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