The aborted review demonstrates the limitations of a unit set up to fanfare, the first of its kind in Florida, to seek justice for the wrongly accused
Author Archives: Casey Frank
Casey Frank is The Trib's Special Project Editor. He joined The Trib in fall 2024 after retiring as the senior editor in charge of the Miami Herald’s investigative team. Over a 10-year span, his team shared in two Pulitzer Prizes and was a finalist three other times. He twice served as a Pulitzer jurist.
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The ‘hanging judge’: Legacy of Jim Crow looms over Jacksonville Death Row case
An examination by The Tributary shows that Judge Hudson Olliff possessed retrograde views on race that were an open secret in Jacksonville’s legal community but less understood by the general public.