A Man Who Was Serving Life In Prison For Murder, Has Just Been Elected To Office
Amy & T.J.
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3.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
What an incredible story out of New Orleans over the weekend. 62-year-old Calvin Duncan has gone from being an 8th grade educated convicted murderer to an exonerated, college educated lawyer who just won Clerk of Criminal Court. Duncan spent 28 years behind bars, educating himself and helping fellow inmates before eventually being freed through the assistance of the Innocence Project. His political opponents used his past to try and turn voters against him, but it backfired and Duncan came out on top with 68 percent of the vote.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.4 | It is Monday, November the 17th. |
| 0:09.6 | And congratulations to Mr. Calvin Duncan, a man who spent nearly 30 years in prison. |
| 0:19.5 | For a murder, he says he did not commit. He is free today. But that's not |
| 0:25.9 | why we're congratulating him. Congratulations because he just got elected to office in Louisiana. |
| 0:32.7 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. A lot of congratulations. You hear a guy who spent 30 years |
| 0:38.7 | in prison for a crime he says he didn't commit. Congratulations. You're out. But this is a different |
| 0:44.8 | type of moment and a county clerk race robes is making national headlines. Yeah, right? This is not a |
| 0:52.0 | race that is typically closely watched, |
| 0:55.1 | even locally, or even reported on in the New Orleans area, let alone, yes, nationally, |
| 1:00.9 | even internationally. But the more and more we read into the story of Calvin Duncan, |
| 1:05.8 | the more fascinated I became with him for a number of reasons. But some of the headlines |
| 1:10.5 | read something like this. |
| 1:13.2 | A man who was serving life in prison for murder just won an election to oversee the very court |
| 1:17.8 | system that once imprisoned him. Or how about this? The same court system that denied him |
| 1:23.0 | access to his own records, he is now the clerk of the court. This is an unbelievable about face and someone |
| 1:31.8 | who took something that happened to him and made it work for him. His life changed in ways |
| 1:37.9 | he couldn't have imagined because he was convicted of this crime. He had an eighth grade |
| 1:43.9 | education, period, when he was imprisoned at the age of |
| 1:47.9 | 21, an eighth grade education. And look, this is a, this is, well, there's not many facets of the |
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