by OpenFile | Dec 7, 2018 | Louisiana
The Louisiana federal prosecutor known for his prolific online rants (about cases his office was prosecuting, no less) has been held to account by the state’s highest court. Six years after former senior litigation counsel Sal Perricone of the U.S. Attorney’s...
by Bert | Apr 19, 2018 | Louisiana
Our long-running fascination with Brady violations in Louisiana—well-documented in many, many of our posts over the years—is not only based on our website’s genesis (the U.S. Supreme Court’s remarkably discouraging opinion about prosecutorial accountability in Connick...
by Bert | Oct 24, 2017 | Louisiana
Louisiana is often featured on the Open File. The jurisdiction is a hotbed of prosecutorial misconduct, and compelling stories emerge from it with regularity. In 2016, we wrote: Even casual criminal justice observers know that Louisiana has a uniquely sordid history...
by Bert | Aug 1, 2017 | Louisiana
In late June, the Louisiana Supreme Court handed down an important opinion that primarily concerns the sentencing of juvenile offenders. The secondary issue in the case—the prosecution’s late disclosure of exculpatory evidence—is what brings The Open File to the...
