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LA: The Raging Fire of Brady Violations Continues to Burn in Louisiana; Will SCOTUS Help Put It Out?

LA: The Raging Fire of Brady Violations Continues to Burn in Louisiana; Will SCOTUS Help Put It Out?

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...
LA: Investigator Claims Her Arrest Was in Retaliation for Exposing Prosecutorial Misconduct

LA: Investigator Claims Her Arrest Was in Retaliation for Exposing Prosecutorial Misconduct

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...
LA: DA Cannizzaro Promotes Conviction Integrity, Yet Continues to Defend Troubled Convictions

LA: DA Cannizzaro Promotes Conviction Integrity, Yet Continues to Defend Troubled Convictions

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...
Breaking: New Orleans Prosecutors Blamed for Yet Another Wrongful Conviction

Breaking: New Orleans Prosecutors Blamed for Yet Another Wrongful Conviction

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...
Department of Justice Should Conduct Independent Inquiry into Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office under Harry Connick, Sr.

Department of Justice Should Conduct Independent Inquiry into Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office under Harry Connick, Sr.

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...
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