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    Willard Allen - Louisiana

    Facts of the Crime:

    On September 7, 1993, police responded to a call at the Cherokee Club in Campti. Upon arrival at the club, police discovered the body of Herman Ferguson, who had been shot six times with a .380-caliber weapon. His body was discovered by Kathy Jacobffy, the club's bartender, and Mary Messick, the club's co-owner. There was also evidence that indicated money had been stolen from the club's safe.

    Allen was sentenced to death on October 17, 1994.

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    On October 7, 2010, Allen's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/lou...v00218/110288/

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    Judge overturns man's conviction, death sentence

    By CHEVEL JOHNSON
    The Associated Press

    NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge has overturned a man's death sentence and conviction in a 1993 murder during an armed robbery of a Natchitoches Parish nightclub.

    U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell of Alexandria granted 56-year-old Willard Allen's petition seeking to overturn his conviction, ruling last week that the state trial court allowed an "avowedly biased juror to be seated on petitioner's jury, through a fatally defective voir dire."

    Drell returned the case to state court with instructions to conduct a bail hearing within 45 days of Thursday's judgment.

    Allen, of Natchitoches, remains in custody at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The state has 270 days to decide whether to retry him. Drell says if that doesn't happen the state must release him.

    http://www.ksla.com/story/24744085/j...death-sentence

    The decision is here.

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    On March 10, 2014, the State of Louisiana filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit over the granting of Allen's habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...s/ca5/14-70009

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    On January 17, 2017, oral argument will be heard in the State of Louisiana's appeal before the Fifth Circuit.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/clerk/ca...1/14-70009.htm

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