Dwight Labran

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole
Years Imprisoned:	5
Year Crime:	1996
Year Convicted:	1997
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Louisiana
County or Region of Crime:	Orleans
City of Crime:	New Orleans
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Dwight Labran was wrongly convicted of first-degree murder in New Orleans. The prosecution's case was based on the testimony of a single eyewitness who was the owner of the car in which the body was found. Labran's alibi defense was that at the time of the murder he was eating dinner with family members in a restaurant on the other side of New Orleans. After the jury convicted him they could not agree on whether he should be sentenced to death, so he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. A post-conviction investigation by the Innocence Project of New Orleans discovered the prosecution failed to disclose that at the time of his identification of Labran the witness had outstanding warrants for firearms and drug offenses that were dismissed after he testified. Based on the prosecution's Brady violation Labran was awarded a new trial and after the Orleans DA's Office declined to reprosecute Labran the charges were dismissed and he was released on December 10, 2001. Labran's wrongful murder conviction expunged on January 16, 2003."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjurious testimony by the prosecution's lone eyewitness.
Innocence Proved By:	DNA evidence
Defendant Aided By:	Innocence Project of New Orleans
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Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	24
Age When Released:	29
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
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Dwight Labran

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole

Years Imprisoned:

5

Year Crime:

1996

Year Convicted:

1997

Year Cleared:

2003

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Louisiana

County or Region of Crime:

Orleans

City of Crime:

New Orleans

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjurious testimony by the prosecution's lone eyewitness.

Innocence Proved By:

DNA evidence

Defendant Aided By:

Innocence Project of New Orleans

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

24

Age When Released:

29

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

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Innocence Project New Orleans Database

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