Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill can represent the state in capital post-conviction cases when the local district attorney requests it, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in the case of Antoinette Frank , a former New Orleans Police Department officer who was convicted 30 years ago in an infamous triple murder.

The high court on Tuesday overturned a ruling in May by Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge Kimya Holmes, who refused to allow Murrill's office or the private attorneys she hired to represent the state in Frank's case.

Murrill has stepped into a host of post-conviction cases involving death row prisoners since Louisiana resumed executions this spring, after a 15-year hiatus. The state has expanded its menu of execution options to include nitrogen gas and electrocution

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