Emotive Taylor says LaWall should wipe his slate clean
Articulate and sometimes emotional, Louis Cuen Taylor spoke Wednesday afternoon
about his case, the legal system and his first days of freedom after four decades in prison.
Taylor was freed from prison Tuesday. He spent 42 years behind bars after a Phoenix
jury convicted him of killing 28 of the 29 people who died in and after the Dec. 20, 1970,
Pioneer Hotel Fire in downtown Tucson. On Tuesday, he pleaded no contest in the
deaths as part of a deal worked out with the Pima County Attorney's Office and the
Arizona Justice Project. The agreement set aside Taylor's original conviction and
gave him credit for time already served.
Still, Taylor maintains his innocence, while the prosecutor's office insists the deal
does not exonerate him of wrongdoing.
At the news conference, Taylor and representatives of his legal team called on
Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall to acknowledge the mistakes of her predecessors.
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