Oliver Loughlin
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first heard Aug 2026
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And so he showed me some of these motions that he filed while he was in jail.
He showed me the handmade law book that was stuck together with old bits of spent chewing gum that had all these old newspaper clippings in them.
And then he also filed his first ever law motion when he was in his early 20s, where he asked the court for a law book to try and understand the rules of criminal procedure in Louisiana.
Well, I think it's important to kind of understand the way in which the criminal justice system in the US and in particular New Orleans worked at that time.
You know, this was a hugely overburdened system that basically prioritised speed over people's due process rights, where it was very common to have an attorney who had done little to no research on your case before you went to trial, where you would have trials, you know, for cases like Calvin's murder trial lasting a single day.
And that's what happened to him.
He went to court.
He met his lawyer for the first time the day before court.
And he told me about how, you know, the meeting was essentially about making sure he had the right clothes to wear in court.
And he was found guilty of murder, even though he mounted a defence.
You know, he had alibi witnesses who testified on his behalf.
But again, you know, this is New Orleans in the 1980s.
The victim of this case was a white man.
The only eyewitness was a young white woman and the jury sided with them.
So Calvin was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, which is a very common sentence for murder convictions in Louisiana.
And he was sent about a year later.
So he spent a bit more time in the parish jail.
About a year later, he was sent to Angola prison,
which is a prison I've written a lot about.
It is a notorious prison in the deep south, set on the grounds of a former slave plantation, where inmates still labor those same fields, working for, in certain instances, two cents an hour to harvest crops and that sort of thing.
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