Rep. Cedric Richmond, Chairman of the Louisiana House Judiciary Committee, will hold a press conference tomorrow at 12:30 pm to announce hearings into the cases of Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, two men who continue to be held in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola but who maintain that they are innocent. Wallace and Woodfox, two of the “Angola Three,” spent 36 years in solitary confinement following the murder of prison guard Brent Miller in 1972. The hearings will investigate allegations that prosecutorial misconduct and corruption were behind the 1974 conviction.
Rep. Richmond’s decision to initiate hearings arose from conversations with US Representative John Conyers, Chair of the US House Judiciary Committee, as well as a letter he received from Teenie Verrett, the widow of Brent Miller, and petitions from approximately 25,000 members of ColorofChange.org, a racial justice organization, urging Governor Bobby Jindal to investigate the case. Richmond will discuss his decision to investigate and what he hopes the hearings will accomplish.
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