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10 Dec 2019, 8:00 am by Ari Rosmarin
This victory built off of our lawsuit in 2017 challenging Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s use of fraudulent subpoenas to jail witnesses of crimes. [read post]
1 Dec 2019, 4:59 am by SHG
In Orleans Parish, Derwyn Bunton decided to do the unthinkable. [read post]
30 Aug 2019, 12:30 pm by John Ross
Separate panels both unanimously ruled that criminal court judges in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, have an unconstitutional conflict of interest when they collect fines and fees and issue arrest warrants if defendants don't pay up. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 4:00 am by Berniard Law Firm
John Courtney Wilson (“Wilson”) attempted to enroll as co-counsel for a sexual harassment lawsuit involving Kendrica Sandifer and the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s office. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 1:39 pm by Emma Zack
Last week, in an agreement with the Ouachita Parish District Attorney’s Office, Manning accepted an Alford plea and was resentenced to time-served. [read post]
15 May 2018, 2:30 pm
We appeared in court last week for the first hearing in our lawsuit, with partner Civil Rights Corps, against the Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s Office. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 11:34 am by Kent Scheidegger
Thompson, 563 U.S. 51, 54 (2011)):The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office now concedes that, in prosecuting respondent John Thompson for attempted armed robbery, prosecutors failed to disclose evidence that should have been turned over to the defense under Brady v. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 11:27 am by Alicia Maule
“We are grateful to Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick for working with the Innocence Project and for the cooperation of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in correcting this grave injustice,” said Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 10:42 am by Alicia Maule
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]
9 Nov 2017, 11:27 am by John Floyd
  Police and Courts Strain Logic to Uphold Conviction   The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office adopted a similar stance. [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]
11 Oct 2017, 4:37 am by SHG
Condensed and summarized, Thompson argued that the failure of the New Orleans District Attorney to train the line prosecutors to comply with Brady meant that the Parish was in essence countenancing violations of Brady. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 4:34 am by Chris Seaton
If the public defenders get to a point where they legitimately feel they can’t provide adequate representation to indigent defendants, then the Volunteer State could see a statewide recreation of what happened in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 3:27 pm by Paul Cates
Thompson in 2011 overturned the jury’s award finding that the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office’s could not be held civilly liable. [read post]
Prior to taking that position, she served as a prosecutor in the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office where she served as chief of felony trials and prosecuted more than 100 jury trials. [read post]
Prior to taking that position, she served as a prosecutor in the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office where she served as chief of felony trials and prosecuted more than 100 jury trials. [read post]
Prior to taking that position, she served as a prosecutor in the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office where she served as chief of felony trials and prosecuted more than 100 jury trials. [read post]
29 Jul 2017, 3:55 am by SHG
Pete Adams, executive director of the Louisiana District Attorneys Association, said. [read post]
7 May 2017, 4:28 am by SHG
” The Orleans Parish District Attorney, Leon Cannizzaro, is a piece of work on many levels. [read post]