by Bert | Dec 21, 2018 | Louisiana
Social media certainly presents some tricky questions for lawyers, but many prosecutors around the country have hardly hesitated or bothered to ask themselves how the Rules of Professional Conduct might come into play when they publicize case-related information. The...
by Bert | May 30, 2017 | Louisiana
It has been a long few weeks for Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro. Since we last checked in on his problematic leadership, public pressure has focused and intensified, like sunlight through a magnifying glass. On April 26, 2017, a New Orleans...
by Bert | Feb 23, 2017 | Louisiana
Earlier this month, the Times-Picayune published a remarkable guest column by Emily Maw, the director of the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO). Responding to Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s angry public complaints about city officials slashing...
by Jane | Jan 9, 2014 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
During closing argument in a 2010 murder case, a San Francisco prosecutor told the jury that the state’s eyewitness had endangered her life by testifying against the defendant, Jamal Trulove, at trial. The problem, the First District Court of Appeal ruled last...
