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according to a 60 Minutes program that aired
September 4, 2016. Further, he attempted to destroy evidence by pawning items taken in the robbery and tried to find buyers for the murder weapon used by men Ford implicated in the murder, according to Caddo Parrish District Judge Katherine Dorroh. Civil proceedings against the state are pending.
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has levied the accusation that racism played a role in the conviction, as he faced a completely
Caucasian jury despite living in a community that is at least half African American. He goes on to state that this is part of a broader pattern in the American legal system, and that uniform juries tend to
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bullet found at the crime scene. Police initially were unable to find any evidence of the crime at Ford's residence, but did find residue from a gunshot wound on his left hand (he is left-handed). Ford was immediately taken into custody. Evidence was, however, found in Henry
Robinson's possession, as
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by the state due to his inability to pay for a lawyer on his own. Both were selected from an alphabetical listing of lawyers from the local bar association. The lead attorney was an oil and gas lawyer who had never tried a case, criminal or civil, before a jury. The second attorney had been out of
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Attorney's office in the Ford case, regrets his role in the conviction. He has stated that he believes Ford had an unfair trial where key evidence was suppressed by both police and prosecutors and that Ford's lawyers did not have the financial resources nor the criminal law experience to
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Isadore
Rozeman, 58, was found dead in his jewelry store on November 5, 1983, by Shreveport police who had been notified by acquaintance Dr. A. R. Ebrahim that the shop appeared to be in disarray. Rozeman had been murdered with a single gunshot wound to the back of the head. Glenn Ford, Rozeman's
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Ford was eligible for a $ 313,000 settlement under
Louisiana law, but a judge denied the petition for the funds, stating that he likely had some role in the initial crime as he had been in possession of stolen goods when arrested. Ford knew a robbery was going to take place and did not stop it,
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his conviction and sentence in March 2014, stating that "credible evidence...supporting a finding that Ford was neither present at, nor a participant in, the robbery and murder of
Isadore Rozeman." State District Judge Ramona Emanuel overturned his conviction that same month.
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yard man, was known to be in the vicinity of the store at the time of the murder and identified by multiple people at the trial. He was known to be with Jake and Henry
Robinson after the crime, showing materials stolen from the crime scene as well as a
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In 2000, the
Louisiana supreme court ordered a hearing on Ford's claim that the prosecution suppressed evidence that might have showed Jake and Henry Robinson to be responsible for the murder (the two were initially implicated in the crime).
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Ford went missing on the night of April 22, 2015, after a precipitous change in mental state, possibly the result of his physical illness. Police initiated a search and he was found the next day, bloodied and without memory of the event.
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mount a proper defense. He feels that if he had done his job properly at the time, and all the evidence had been properly collected, "they would not have even been able to arrest Glenn Ford, let alone try him for the crime."
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deliberate less than diverse juries drawn from a range of backgrounds. He continues that "diverse juries are more likely to challenge one another, and less likely to fall back on what may be unconscious stereotypes."
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