while out on bail awaiting sentencing for other crimes

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An Orleans Parish judge has sentenced Clifford Pierce, 35, to life in prison without parole for being a quadruple offender, three years after a jury found him guilty of possession of a stolen car.
But between the guilty verdict, delivered July 31, 2006, and his sentencing hearing on Tuesday, Pierce was freed on an $8,000 personal recognizance bond and eluded Criminal District Court until March 2008, when he was tracked down in a Georgia jail, according to the court minute records.
Having bonded out and given the courts a Shreveport home address at some point after Judge Lynda Van Davis gave him prison time, Pierce was free to murder his girlfriend in eastern New Orleans on June 2, 2007, prosecutors say.
Pierce is awaiting trial accused of the second-degree murder of Tammie Johnson, who was killed at 4817 Rosalia Drive. District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro's office secured a murder indictment from a grand jury last fall.
Johnson, 36, died of a shotgun blast to the chest.