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 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...
by Jane | Sep 1, 2014 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro gave a press conference on August 19 announcing his re-election campaign. According to John Simerman of the New Orleans Advocate, Cannizzaro claimed that his office has improved integrity and fairness in the criminal...
by OpenFile | May 12, 2014 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
Another man wrongfully sent to prison for life by District Attorney Harry Connick, Sr. in New Orleans will be released from prison. Orleans Parish prosecutors Ron Bodenheimer and Harold Gilbert, Jr. committed “intentional prosecutorial misconduct” and made...
by Jane | Sep 16, 2013 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
Revelations that yet another criminal conviction out of New Orleans was attained through the illegal (and potentially criminal) conduct of an Orleans Parish prosecutor makes you wonder whether any of the cases won under former District Attorney Harry Connick, Sr. were...
