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Associated Press - December 8, 2009 7:44 AM ET
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A longtime prison inmate is asking the federal court system to find that he was wrongfully convicted in state court for the 1972 murder of a security officer at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Sixty-8-year-old Herman Joshua Wallace was serving a 50-year sentence for armed robbery when Officer Brent Miller was stabbed to death in a prison dormitory.
The Louisiana Supreme Court refused in October to review Wallace's 1974 conviction for the murder of Miller, a 23-year-old prison guard.
The Advocate reports New Orleans attorney Nicholas J. Trenticosta is asking U.S. District Judge Ralph E. Tyson, of Baton Rouge, to hold a hearing on Wallace's contention that he was convicted on the basis of twisted testimony from two other inmates who have since died.
Information from: The Advocate, http://www.2theadvocate.com
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