UPDATE: Glenn Ford was indeed released from prison late Tuesday
afternoon local time. The same judge who denied him relief in
2009 was the one who signed the order authorizing his release.
ORIGINAL STORY: Glenn Ford, a black man wrongfully convicted of
murder by an all-white jury in Louisiana in 1984, a man who has
spent the last 30 years on death row for a crime he did not
commit following a trial filled with constitutional violations,
is on the verge of being set free. Once that happens (and it
could happen as soon as tomorrow after a hearing in the case) he
will become one of the longest-serving death row inmates in
modern American history to be exonerated and released.  Ford's
dogged lawyers and enlightened parish prosecutors in Shreveport
both filed motions late last week informing a state trial judge
that the time has come now to vacate Ford's murder conviction
and death sentence. Why? Because prosecutors now say that they
learned, late last year, of "credible evidence" that Ford "was
neither present a