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4 Jan 2012, 7:30 am
Art dealer Robert Lucky Jr. of New Orleans was sentenced Tuesday to 25 months in federal prison for selling forgeries of famed folk artist Clementine Hunter, whose paintings of early 20th century agrarian life in Natchitoches Parish hang in the Smithsonian. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 11:51 am
I think that it is very important for Louisiana residents to know and understand what has been going on for YEARS in the Orleans Parish DA office and how such misconduct is leading to wrongful convictions. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 1:12 pm
Earlier coverage of the Orleans Parish District Attorney's office begins at the link. [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]
9 Nov 2011, 4:49 am
From the New York Times: Justice Kagan said she could not understand why the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office persisted in defending its conduct. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 2:45 am
This case gives the Court another opportunity to weigh in on prosecutorial misconduct out of the District Attorney's office in Orleans Parish. [read post]
5 Nov 2011, 9:21 pm
Smith had been found guilty at an initial trial in December 1995 of five murders; he was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 8:56 am
He described a case in the “mean place” of New Orleans’ Jefferson parish, where his client had been convicted of homicide and jailed for 18 years. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 1:35 pm
More broadly, according to a survey of both capital and non-capital cases by the Innocence Network, 10 prisoners have been exonerated since 1990 in Orleans Parish in such cases. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 12:46 pm
He was released from Angola prison this morning. [read post]
2 Oct 2011, 4:13 am
This case gives the Court another opportunity to weigh in on prosecutorial misconduct out of the District Attorney's office in Orleans Parish (the same source in Connick v. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 8:18 am
A 2006 ACLU report on the horrific conditions endured by inmates at Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina was referenced in many blog posts this weekend responding to the revelation that New York City has no emergency evacuation plan for the more than 12,000 people at Rikers Island. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 3:06 pm
He sued the Orleans Parish Attorney's Office in civil court and won a settlement, but the decision was eventually overturned by the U.S. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 8:57 am
New York City need not replicate the horror stories of those abandoned at Orleans Parish Prison after Hurricane Katrina. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 2:36 pm
The Orleans Parish Prison has been under scrutiny as well, with the DOJ issuing a scathing findings letter in 2009 about unconstitutional conditions of confinement. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 4:07 am
This case presents the Court another opportunity to weigh in on prosecutorial misconduct out of the District Attorney's office in Orleans Parish (the same source in Connick v. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 3:12 pm
Smith’s conviction of five murders in New Orleans in 1995 led to a sentence of life in prison without a chance for parole. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 6:23 pm
Thompson that the Orleans Parish Attorney does not have to pay John Thompson the $14 million he was awarded in a lawsuit for outrageous prosecutorial misconduct. [read post]
1 May 2011, 8:30 am
LEXIS 43640, April 1, 2011) and dismissed an inmate's complaint that the Orleans Parish Prison offers no religious programs or communal services for inmates to attend.On April 18, the U.S. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 9:20 am
Instead, the evidence demonstrated that misperception and disregard of Brady's disclosure requirements were pervasive in Orleans Parish. [read post]
