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11 Aug 2009, 7:23 am
The jury heard substantial evidence that the District Attorney's Office provided no Brady specific training, despite the known risk of the exact type of systemic nondisclosure that the failure to train caused here. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 7:26 pm
Before Thompson's first trial in 1985, the Orleans Parish district attorney's office, led by Harry Connick Sr., prosecuted Thompson in an unrelated armed-robbery attempt, winning a conviction that caused him to avoid testifying on his own behalf during his murder trial. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 1:58 pm
"A divided appeals court affirms jury's $14 million award to a former death-row inmate": The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has a news update that begins, "In a tied vote that means a mandatory affirmation of the lower court's ruling, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the $14 million jury verdict against the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office for misconduct in the 1985 murder trial of John… [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]
6 Jul 2009, 7:35 am
A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended a six month suspension with two months deferred in a matter where an Orleans Parish Assistant District Attorney continued to represent criminal defendants in the Parish after taking his oath of office as a... [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 6:58 pm
District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro doesn't get it. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 6:13 pm
The agreement should be signed next week, Foshee said. _____ sued the city and former city police officers, alleging civil rights violations, after his release from Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and the dismissal of the charges against him by the district attorney's office. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 12:59 pm
I was going to get around to posting about the DA saying he was considering filing bankruptcy, but he changed his mind. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 7:06 pm
The story continues: These days, Taylor, 30, remains in Orleans Parish Prison awaiting a new trial, and District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro's office is preparing to start from scratch.But his staff might not get a chance to try the case. [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 1:14 pm
I reported earlier about a $14m judgment against the Orleans Parish DA's office. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 1:54 am
"DA must pay freed inmate, appeals court says; He is owed $14 million for 14 years on death row": The Times-Picayune of New Orleans today contains an article that begins, "The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to toss out a $14 million judgment against the Orleans Parish district attorney's office that a federal jury awarded last year to former death row inmate John Thompson. [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]
21 Dec 2008, 7:43 pm
Thompson was then re-tried by the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, and was acquitted. ----- It's a damn shame that this can happen - and I'm glad that Mr. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 12:28 pm
The scheme began to unravel in April of 2004, when the Chief Judge of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court told the FBI that someone who was "on drug probation was complaining that his probation officer, Angela Kirkland, was pressuring him to pay $500 in order to be released from probation and aftercare. [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 11:16 pm
View the article here 08/08/2008 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A New Orleans police officer has been charged with rape by the Orleans Parish district attorney's office. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 10:32 am
Foti, Jr. filed a lawsuit in the Civil District for the Parish of Orleans alleging that under Louisiana's antitrust laws certain insurers and insurance industry participants fixed prices, manipulated damage estimates and low-balled claims payments after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. [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]
13 Nov 2007, 12:08 pm
I do my best to post when a particularly intriguing business or law story turns up, and I won't disappoint this afternoon â€â [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 10:36 pm
Crowe and Ken Odinet -- fighting for the 1st District seat, which includes St. [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 10:15 am
"After an outcry over New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan's dropping the case against a man accused in last summer's quintuple murder, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti agreed to investigate how the Orleans Parish prosecutor's office deals with homicides and other violent offenses, reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune. [read post]
