Paul Connick, the district attorney for Jefferson Parish, said in a news release that justice had been served. His assistants who tried the case told reporters they respected the verdict and added that the McKnight family was satisfied with it.
Date: Jan 27, 2018
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Death penalty sought against Raising Cane's murder suspect
"After meeting with Ms. Friloux's family and consulting with my staff, I have decided my office will seek the death penalty," Paul Connick, Jefferson Parish DA said in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
Date: Oct 27, 2016
Category: U.S.
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DNA Evidence Exonerates Man After 15 Years on Death Row at Angola
District Attorney, Paul Connick, Jr., joined the Innocence Project, the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana and the law firm of Fredrikson & Byron in agreeing to overturn Thibodeauxs conviction and death sentence, and he was released in September 2012 after 15 years on death row and 16
Date: Sep 29, 2012
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Louisiana death row inmate 300th prisoner freed by DNA evidence
In 2007, Thibodeauxs legal team persuaded Jefferson County Dist. Atty. Paul Connick to reinvestigate the case, and DNA testing showed that Thibodeaux was not the murderer and that the victim had notbeen raped.