USATODAY.com - 8 years in a Louisiana jail, but he never went to trial: "8 years in a Louisiana jail, but he never went to trial
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
When he was charged with murder in 1996, James Thomas, an impoverished day laborer in Baton Rouge, became like many other criminal defendants: With no money to hire a lawyer, he had to rely on the government to provide him with one.
He then spent the next 8½ years in jail, waiting for his case to go to trial. It never did."
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