15 Facts About Len Davis

Len Davis was born on August 6,1964 and is a former New Orleans police officer.

Len Davis was convicted of depriving civil rights through murder by conspiring with an assassin to kill a local resident.

Len Davis had been suspended six times and received 20 complaints between 1987 and 1992, while subsequently receiving the department's Medal of Merit in 1993.

In 1994, an FBI sting caught Len Davis enforcing a protection racket upon the city's cocaine dealers.

Len Davis had extorted protection money from a drug dealer who was an FBI informant.

Nine other police officers, including two who would later testify against Len Davis, were later indicted for being part of a criminal conspiracy with Len Davis.

In 1994, Len Davis beat a young man in New Orleans, mistaking him for a suspect in a police officer's shooting.

Len Davis was tipped off about the complaint by another officer and then conspired with a local drug dealer, Paul Hardy, to kill Groves.

Len Davis was convicted in 1996 on two federal civil rights charges for directing Hardy to murder Groves and for witness tampering.

Len Davis was initially sentenced to death on April 26,1996.

Len Davis is currently imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

In 2025, President Biden offered clemency to Len Davis and commuted his sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Len Davis was initially sentenced to death, but in 2011, his sentence was commuted to life when he was found by a judge to be intellectually disabled.

Len Davis was sentenced to life imprisonment after rejecting a plea bargain that would have given him six to nine years in prison.

In December 2022, another man, Sherman Singleton, who was convicted based on false testimony from Len Davis was released from prison after more than 30 years.