Jimmie Duncan: Death sentence and conviction set aside due to inaccurate evidence

A recent article has reported that Jimmie Duncan who was convicted of first-degree murder has had both his conviction and death sentence set aside by Louisiana District Court Judge Alvin Sharp.

In 1993 Jimmie Duncan was sentenced to death for the death of his girlfriend’s toddler based on faulty bite mark evidence.

In 2024, Judge Sharp held that expert testimony presented during a September 2024 evidentiary hearing, demonstrated the bite mark analysis used against Mr Duncan is “no longer valid” and “not scientifically defensible.”

Mr Duncan’s conviction relied on forensic evidence and testimony by state experts, which today, has come under scrutiny because of their involvement in wrongful convictions. Subsequently, their testimonies have been discredit in numerous cases, where three of those cases have involved death sentences, have been freed from prison after it was proven that those convictions were based in part, on inaccurate evidence.

 You can read more about Mr Duncan’s case here