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10 Feb 2020, 9:05 pm
The district attorney in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, which includes the city of New Orleans, pressured witnesses and crime victims into cooperating through the use of fake “subpoenas” warning them of fines or jail time for nonappearance. [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 9:13 am
Half of those inmates have been sent there since Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick Jr. took office in 1997. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 1:12 pm
Earlier coverage of the Orleans Parish District Attorney's office begins at the link. [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]
4 May 2017, 4:17 am
New Orleans has criminal law issues, from the woeful lack of money for indigent defense to a district attorneys office with mud all over their trial suits. [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]
22 Nov 2015, 3:51 am
“I’m not saying the district attorney doesn’t need what he has,” Bunton told Hunter. [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 5:19 am
Orleans Parish Criminal Court Chief Judge Raymond Bigelow on Thursday refused to allow Stuart Weg, a volunteer attorney from Indianapolis, to solely represent Charles Wesley, a theft suspect, in a scheduled motion hearing. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 8:27 am
Those following the ongoing saga of the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office, which has been the subject of multiple claims of misconduct and three recent Supreme Court cases, will be interested in Fordham Law Review’s symposium on official and municipal liability. [read post]
21 Dec 2008, 8:24 pm
Unfortunately, the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors has limited capacity: For nearly three weeks, NewsChannel 6 has tried to get the Louisiana State Licensing Board Of Contractors to walk through the Gentilly homes with the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 9:30 am
Another judge already has tossed the conviction, and the Jefferson Parish district attorney’s office dismissed the case, after attorneys said DNA proved conclusively that James was not the rapist. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 10:42 am
Today the Innocence Project, along with the law firms Covington & Burling LLP and Jones Walker LLP, filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of exoneree Robert Jones against the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office for the damages Jones suffered following his arrest, wrongful convictions, and over 23 years of wrongful imprisonment for crimes he didn’t commit. [read post]
4 Nov 2006, 6:32 am
From The Associated Press via The (New Orleans) Times Picayune:The Orleans Parish public defenders office needs at least $7 million a year — more than double next year's budget projection — for a system that constitutionally represents all its clients, a consultant for the office testified Friday. [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]
10 Mar 2012, 12:21 pm
Louisiana Criminal Defense Attorney Elizabeth B. [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]
12 Nov 2011, 12:48 pm
ABA Files Amicus Demanding Disclosure of Exculpatory Evidence Regardless of Materiality, Boarder than Brady By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The Orleans Parish and Williamson County district attorney offices have something in common: both have a disturbing history of withholding exculpatory information that resulted in innocent men being sent to prison (or death row) for long periods of time (here, here and here). [read post]
12 Sep 2006, 3:49 pm
From The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune:In a sign of simmering tensions between criminal court judges and Orleans Parish public defenders, Judge Terry Alarcon on Monday publicly scolded one of the new heads of the defense office for not being ready to proceed with the scheduled trial of a 27-year-old man accused of dealing crack cocaine. [read post]
23 Sep 2006, 6:59 am
From The New Orleans Times-Picayune:An Orleans Parish judge dropped his contempt of court case against an attorney for failing to comply with his order to swiftly provide legal representation to three indigent defendants facing death penalty charges. [read post]
2 Nov 2017, 1:32 pm
” The punctuation, arguably critical to Demesme’s use of the sobriquet “dog,” was provided by the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office in a brief, and then adopted by Louisiana Associate Supreme Court Justice Scott J. [read post]
