Shreveport man profiled by KATC Investigates fatally shot
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Shreveport native Fate Winslow, 53, was sentenced to life in prison for his fourth felony offense, a $20 marijuana sale. He was released from Angola in December 2020.
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SHREVEPORT, La. â Shreveport native Fate Winslow has been fatally shot just months after being released early from a life sentence in prison under Louisianaâs Habitual Offender Law.
According to the Caddo Parish Coronerâs Office, Winslow was pronounced dead at the scene of a May 4 shooting in the 4600 block of Linwood Avenue in Shreveport. His female companion, Tammy Sheree Williams Harris, 48, of the Linwood Avenue address, was transported to Ochsner LSU Health hospital, where she succumbed to her wounds.
Guy Frank, 67, became a free man on April 8, after serving 21 years of a 23-year sentence. The Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) worked to get Frank out of prison two years early.
New Orleans man freed after 23-year sentence for stealing 2 shirts
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NEW ORLEANS Guy Frank wears a silver watch on his right arm. It s a memento from his brother Joe, who died of cancer last April during Frank s 20th year in prison.
The deaths mounted as Frank served a 23-year sentence for stealing two shirts from a Canal Street department store under Louisiana s version of a three strikes law. The 11th and last relative to go was his father, who died weeks before Frank walked free on April 8. It hurt me to see these people die while I was in prison, Frank said last Friday, his voice choking with emotion. I can t go back and get them out of the grave.
Man freed after 23-year sentence for stealing 2 shirts | I just want to be happy
Guy Frank served a 23-year sentence for stealing two shirts from a Canal Street department store under Louisiana’s version of a “three strikes” law.
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Guy Frank is poses for a photo at the office of the Innocence Project New Orleans in New Orleans, Friday, April 16, 2021. Frank served a 23-year sentence for stealing two shirts from a Canal Street department store under Louisiana’s version of a “three strikes” law. Until this month, Frank was one of an untold number of people still imprisoned by a harsher era of criminal justice. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
Until this month, Frank was one of an untold number of people still imprisoned by a harsher era of criminal justice. But the 6th Ward native now has nearly three years of his life back, thanks to parallel projects from a non-profit law firm and the District Attorney’s Office to review and reverse old, unjust sentences.
At least six people from Orleans Parish serving life prison terms under the habitual offender statute have been freed so far during Jason Williams’ term, and prosecutors have filed a motion to remove the sentencing enhancement from another case, according to a review of state prison records. The District Attorney’s Office declined to give its own count.