A man from Caddo Parish is now free today after spending almost three decades behind bars at Angola.

64-year-old Glenn Ford had been on death row since 1998 for a 1983 murder.

Ford was convicted of murdering 56-year-old Isadore Rozeman a jeweler from Shreveport.  For did occasional yard work for Rozeman, but he had always denied killing Rozeman.

DNA cleared Ford in the case, and the man was released fro the custody of Louisiana's maximum security prison yesterday evening.

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