Dirty Politics? Exonerated Man Wins Election But La. Governor Won’t Let Him Serve
How Men Think
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Calvin Duncan has filed a civil rights lawsuit to fight state lawmakers who just eliminated the office he was elected to last year. Duncan was set to take office as criminal court clerk of New Orleans on Monday, when Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a law this week, abolishing the role. Duncan was freed after spending 28 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, earned his law degree at 60 and is now fighting to assume the office he was legally elected to on Monday.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Saturday, May 2nd, and it was one of our favorite feel-good stories of the year last year. |
| 0:14.7 | And this morning, it feels like crap. |
| 0:17.5 | Because a man who, against all odds, was exonerated after being convicted of murder, |
| 0:24.8 | got out of prison and won an election, and he's supposed to take office on Monday. |
| 0:30.3 | But the governor just eliminated the position altogether. With that, welcome to this episode |
| 0:35.3 | of Amy and TJ. I said it was a story we felt good |
| 0:37.8 | about Roeb. This was one you were over the moon about, Mr. Calvin Duncan in New Orleans. |
| 0:42.3 | I have chills when you just say his name, Calvin Duncan, and when you see his smiling face, |
| 0:48.5 | when he victoriously and overwhelmingly won the Office of Court Clerk for New Orleans. And against all odds, |
| 0:58.3 | the joy in his face after all this man has overcome, being wrongfully convicted of murder, |
| 1:03.0 | spent 28 years behind bars, got out, put himself through law school, got his law degree at 60. |
| 1:10.1 | He's there to serve and to give back because he's been pointing out that the legal system, |
| 1:15.1 | the judicial system, specifically there in Louisiana and in New Orleans, |
| 1:18.8 | has been unfair to black and brown people incarcerated. |
| 1:22.6 | They haven't had access to their court records, to their court documents, |
| 1:26.1 | what he fought so hard to get so that he could |
| 1:28.6 | free himself, now he was going to be the man in charge overseeing that whole operation to set |
| 1:34.6 | it right. |
| 1:35.4 | Kind of an awesome story. |
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