by OpenFile | Dec 9, 2013 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 recently aired a segment on the problem of prosecutorial misconduct and the lack of accountability for prosecutors who deliberately hide evidence. In the first clip, CNN details the stories of John Thompson and Michael Anderson who were...
by David | Oct 13, 2013 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
Check out this new video by Naomi Martin of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. In it, Emily Maw of the Innocence Project New Orleans talks about two cases from the 1990s that landed back in court last week. According to Emily Maw, in those cases, new evidence has emerged...
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...
by Jane | Sep 12, 2013 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
Following the 8-1 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Juan Smith’s murder convictions in January 2012, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office is back to its old tricks by stymieing the efforts of defense counsel to shed light on why...
by OpenFile | Sep 7, 2013 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
Another criminal conviction has been thrown out because the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office elicited perjured testimony and suppressed evidence at trial. Judge Helen Berrigan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana found that...
