Louisiana trio imprisoned for 28 years freed after judge tosses murder convictions

Newly uncovered evidence linked investigation into 1994 New Orleans murder to disgraced officer currently on federal death row

Three Louisiana men incarcerated for over 28 years were found to have been wrongfully convicted of murder on Wednesday, after newly uncovered evidence linked the original police investigation to a notorious officer found guilty of murder conspiracy and endemic corruption in the New Orleans police department.

Bernell Juluke, Kunta Gable and Leroy Nelson were found guilty of the second-degree murder of Rondell Santinac in 1996, with all three men - who were teenagers at the time of the drive-by shooting in the city's ninth ward - maintaining their innocence since arrest.