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 OpenFile | Apr 1, 2015 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
The Department of Justice has released a report on its internal investigation into the online commenting scandal which resulted in U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s resignation and the overturning of convictions against five New Orleans police officers in the Danziger...
by Sophie | Mar 4, 2015 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
Disturbing allegations have surfaced in New Orleans, Louisiana this week that an investigator at the Orleans Public Defender (OPD) may have been arrested in retaliation for exposing the alleged misconduct of a prosecutor in the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s...
