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November 10, 2015

Court OKs 3rd Trial for Angola 3 Member Albert Woodfox 
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A federal appeals court has ruled Louisiana can continue to imprison
Angola 3 member Albert Woodfox and proceed with plans to try him a third
time for murder, after his two previous convictions for the crime were
overturned. Woodfox has spent more than 40 years in solitary
confinement. He was convicted of the 1972 murder of a prison guard, a
crime for which he and late, fellow Angola 3 member Herman Wallace say
they were framed because of their political activism. The slain guard's
widow is among those to call for Woodfox's release. Herman Wallace was
released in October 2013 and died of liver cancer three days later.
Woodfox will remain in prison.

 

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