Right now, it’s staffed just 12 hours a day. For the first month, it was closed on the weekends.
Category: Criminal Justice
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Top employee in Orleans Parish DA’s office ordered staff to use fake subpoenas
Staffers were told to use a notice that looked like a real court document, with “SUBPOENA” printed at the top.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
‘Black and Blue’ upends policing stereotypes — as did the remarkable Yvonne Bechet
Who says cops have to be hostile to communities they police?
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Judge can’t remember whether he used fake subpoenas while working as prosecutor
Defense attorneys are seeking a new trial because their client was convicted after the victim received a fake subpoena.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Lawyers ask judge to disclose whether he used fake subpoenas when he was a prosecutor
Judge Byron Williams was a prosecutor when the DA’s office used an earlier version of its fake subpoenas.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Investigations
For years, defense lawyers told judges that New Orleans prosecutors were using fake subpoenas. Nothing happened.
Some have asked how Orleans Parish prosecutors used fake subpoenas for so long with no repercussions. We found several instances in which lawyers protested their use in court, but nothing happened. The practice stopped only when it was made public.
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Orleans Parish judge sent misleading ‘DA subpoenas’ when she was a prosecutor
Criminal District Judge Karen Herman also issued arrest warrants to two women after they disobeyed fake subpoenas.
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Orleans Parish prosecutors’ use of misleading ‘DA subpoenas’ goes back about 20 years
Former DA Harry Connick said there’s a big difference between the notices his prosecutors used and the ones sent under the current DA.
Posted inCriminal Justice
District attorney plans to appeal ruling requiring him to turn over fake subpoenas to The Lens
But Cannizzaro’s office will continue to search case files for the documents, a spokesman said.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Investigations
Lawyers say shooting victim was coerced with a fake subpoena into talking to police
They contend the defendant should get a new trial because the DA didn’t disclose two fake subpoenas and other evidence.