Exonerated Man's Election Win Threatened

0:00It's April 11th, from your city to your ears. This is Tampa Bay News today, powered by AI. Calvin Duncan spent nearly 30 years behind bars before getting exonerated, then crushed an election in New Orleans last November with 68. Percent of the vote to become Orleans' parish clerk of Criminal Court. His swearing in is set for May 4th, and he plans to fix the justice system using lessons from his own battles accessing records while locked up in. Some security. Earlier this week, on April 8th, Louisiana Senate Republicans voted to wipe out that exact job as part of a bigger push to overhaul the judiciary. In New Orleans. Governor Jeff Landry and the Republican-led legislature are driving this move, catching Duncan right before he can step into office. Duncan calls it straight retaliation from officials who fought his innocence claim for years. His names, even on the national registry of exonerations. He walks seed as a raw power play against the guy who beat the system and now wants to reform it from the inside.

1:01His story goes back to a 1981 murder conviction that kept him inside for 28 years. In 2011, prosecutors cut a deal for time served if he pled to lesser charges, but he kept fighting and got fully cleared by a judge in 20. 21. Now Duncan runs a non-profit pushing court access for the incarcerated, tying his election win to decades of grind. But the bill moving fast, it'll be a test of whether his victory holds or gets erased by politics.