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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]
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]
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
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]
28 Dec 2006, 12:08 pm
The indictment of the seven officers appears entirely appropriate, but Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan’s comments are not. [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 6:29 am
At least 85% of them qualify for representation by a public defender from the Orleans Parish Indigent Defender program.The city's indigent defense system has long been plagued by negligent attorneys who provide haphazard and deficient representation. [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]
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]
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]
26 Sep 2006, 11:39 am
Calvin Johnson, Orleans Parish Criminal District Court• Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. [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]
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]
8 Aug 2006, 12:07 am
Prosecutors from a neighboring parish in Louisiana have volunteered to help the New Orleans district attorney's office and the city has created a new system to call witnesses, [read post]
