Friday, November 18, 2016

Rodricus Crawford: Louisiana: Bulletin: Significant Development; He has been moved off of death row at Angola to a correctional centre in Caddo Parish pending a hearing early next week (Tuesday November 22), Nancy Cook of ktalnews reports...(One step closer to freedom? Or will the State of Louisiana seek to impose release terms strictly limiting his freedom pending its decision as to whether Crawford will be put through a new trial.HL)..."Crawford was brought back to Caddo Parish from Angola today to begin the process of that new trial."

"The man who has spent the last two years on death row was booked into the Caddo Correctional Center just before 4 this afternoon. A Caddo Parish jury found Rodricus Crawford, 28, guilty of first degree murder in the February 2012 death of his 1-year-old baby, Roderius Lott. But Wednesday, the Louisiana Supreme Court overturned the conviction and death sentence and ordered a new trial after finding that the trial judge botched the constitutional process to exclude several black people from the jury. Crawford was brought back to Caddo Parish from Angola today to begin the process of that new trial."
http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/local-news/death-row-inmate-back-at-ccc-for-new-trial