by OpenFile | Jan 20, 2014 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
Current and former Orleans Parish Assistant District Attorneys Chris Bowman and John Alford have been in the news; one for being ordered to jail, the other for being celebrated as a top prosecutor in his new digs. John Alford, the former Orleans Parish Assistant...
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 OpenFile | Jul 26, 2013 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
In June we highlighted an excellent column by James Gill at the Baton Rouge Advocate in Louisiana which honed in on three capital cases from 1995 out of former District Attorney Harry Connick’s office and which have since given the Orleans District...
by OpenFile | Jun 7, 2013 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
James Gill has a terrific new column about three capital cases prosecuted under Harry Connick, who was Orleans parish District Attorney from 1973-2003. Gill’s piece,“Connick-era Cases Still in Play,” notes that 1995 was the year Connick’s prosecutors put away Shareef...
