Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Lawyers for the Angola 3 work to gain release of Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox

Citing "lost" evidence, fabricated eyewitness testimony, and the Louisiana Department of Corrections' zeal to quickly end its investigation into the 1972 murder of a prison guard at Angola, defense lawyers Monday called for the release of two men known as part of the "Angola 3."

The three men, all from New Orleans, are Albert Woodfox, Herman "Hooks" Wallace and Robert King, who were blamed for the fatal stabbing of officer Brent Miller at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1972, when it was known as one of the most bloody and brutal state prisons in the United States.

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