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28 Feb 2008, 5:43 am
"For a year and a half after the calamitous Hurricane Katrina, Judge Julian Parker shared a courtroom with another Orleans Parish District Criminal Court judge - or didn't have one at all. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 6:50 am
Johnson of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and Judge Laurie White of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court will then participate in a question-and-answer session, including questions and comments from the audience. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 10:10 pm
District Judge G. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 8:46 am
District Judge Thomas Porteous Jr. will regain both his criminal and civil dockets next month, signaling an end to the long criminal investigation into his personal bankruptcy and possible misdeeds while a federal and Jefferson Parish jurist.Chief Judge Ginger Berrigan said Thursday that Porteous will return to the U.S. [read post]
8 May 2007, 5:12 am
Judge Arthur Hunter [JURIST news archive] of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court [official website] told the defendants that while the charges are not being dropped, the defendants will not be further prosecuted [AP report] until they are able to retain lawyers [read post]
1 May 2007, 1:23 am
From New Orleans City Business:The chronic under-funding of Louisiana's indigent defense system reached critical mass two weeks ago when Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter ordered the release of 42 individuals with pending felony charges. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 12:47 am
[JURIST] Judge Arthur Hunter [JURIST news archive] of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court [official website] Wednesday suspended the prosecutions of 42 New Orleans indigent criminal defendants who had not been provided adequate legal counsel and ordered 16 of them released without bail. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 5:30 am
From New Orleans City Business:Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter is expected to release 42 individuals with pending felony charges Wednesday because they are not receiving fair representation. [read post]
31 Mar 2007, 7:21 am
Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter said that next month he will release 42 poor defendants who remain in custody, and he suggested the public defender program should dump cases rather than continue working on them while it has only a skeleton staff, a staggering caseload and a pitiful budget. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 4:35 pm
[JURIST] Judge Arthur Hunter [JURIST news archive] of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court [official website] issued a delayed order for the release and suspension of prosecution for as many as 42 criminal defendants Friday in light of the fact that the city's public defender's office [official website] does not have the resources to adequately represent the indigent suspects. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 7:20 pm
Singer told Hunter on Friday that 12 public defenders were handling at least 1,371 cases in Orleans Parish's criminal district court as of Nov. 9, 2006, an average of 114 cases per lawyer.entire article... [read post]
9 Mar 2007, 5:20 am
From The New Orleans Times Picayune:Two weeks ago, the chief Criminal District Court judge in Orleans Parish ruled that out-of-state lawyers who have come to New Orleans to help the public defender's office could not represent criminal defendants in court without the presence of a Louisiana lawyer. [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 5:19 am
From The New Orleans Times-Picayune:A Louisiana Supreme Court order allowing out-of-state lawyers to help represent poor criminal defendants in New Orleans still requires a state-licensed attorney to be present at all court proceedings, a criminal court judge ruled Thursday. [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 6:29 am
Many are still among the 3,000 active criminal court cases. [read post]
3 Dec 2006, 7:49 am
From The New Orleans Times-Picayune:The judges at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court abused their powers by ordering the struggling public defender program to supply more courtroom lawyers or face jail time, the program's board of directors argues in a new court filing. [read post]
22 Nov 2006, 8:39 am
From The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune:Criticizing recent changes to reshape the Orleans Parish Indigent Defender Program, nine Criminal District Court judges Monday ordered the board overseeing the system to hire more attorneys to provide representation to impoverished criminal defendants. [read post]
22 Nov 2006, 8:17 am
The order, issued on Monday by judges with the Criminal District Court, said mismanagement of the Orleans Parish... [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 1:58 pm
[JURIST] A judge in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court [official website] on Monday urged prosecutors to either charge hospital workers accused of killing four patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive] or drop the case. [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 4:07 am
The order, issued Monday by judges in the Criminal District Court, said mismanagement of the Orleans Parish Indigent Defender Program has denied poor defendants their 6th Amendment right to proper legal representation. [read post]
13 Oct 2006, 11:06 pm
" It was a made-up term that just made his desperation even more hilarious.From Louisiana, always a rich source of material for this blog, we read this news story:The state's highest court ordered Orleans Parish Criminal Court Judge Charles Elloie removed from the bench until a full hearing into alleged misconduct involving the setting of bonds can be heard. [read post]
