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Standing in front of the Avoyelles Parish Jail, an NAACP chapter president called for the resignation of Avoyelles Parish Sheriff David Dauzat.

Twin sisters insist they were attacked by a Black man as teenagers decades ago. But now a woman has surfaced with information that may support his innocence.

Twin sisters insist they were attacked by a Black man as teenagers decades ago. But now a woman has surfaced with information that may support his innocence.

Twin sisters insist they were attacked by a Black man as teenagers decades ago. But now a woman has surfaced with information that may support his innocence.

Karen and Sharon Sanders testified they were attacked by a Black man in 1977. A woman who claims to have new information questions that account.

Twin sisters accused a Black man of attacking them in 1977, but he insists he's innocent and has been fighting ever since to clear his name.

By Victor Trammell Photo credits: V. Simmons Five decades ago, a black Louisiana man was convicted of attempted aggravated rape and sentenced to 100 years in jail. On February 14, he was freed from a state penitentiary. A court determined days before Vincent Simmons’ 70th birthday that he did not get a fair trial. In […]

A Black Louisiana man convicted of attempted aggravated rape, and sentenced to 100 years in prison five decades ago, was released from a state

The alleged incident occurred May 9, 1977; the girls reported it two weeks later and the medical exam report was dated June 10.

MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — A Black man in Louisiana is free after spending 44 years in prison for an attempted rape he says he didn’t commit. Avoyelles Parish Judge William Bennett on Tuesday overturned Vincent Simmons’ conviction Tuesday, finding t...