Louis Gibson was convicted of murder for shooting a childhood friend, Latrone Davis. He's served 24 years in prison. Legislators are working on legislation to grant parole hearings to people who were juveniles when they were sentenced to life in prison. The law could affect about 300 inmates.
Attorney Craig Mordock says he hopes other lawyers follow suit.
We reviewed 33 notices sent by prosecutors since 2015. They had the court clerk’s name on them and told people they were “notified … to testify.” DA Warren Montgomery said they were misleading, but he doesn’t believe they were misused. A legal expert called them a sham.
His office has told us it doesn’t know how often they were used, and it’s too hard to look.
In rejecting a public-records request from The Lens, the district attorney's office said it was too burdensome.
The possibilities include disciplinary action, federal charges, and nothing at all.
She died Tuesday. Here's the column she wrote while she was still hospitalized from her injuries in the Mother's Day second-line shooting in 2013.
One of the threats came after her lawyer asked a judge to throw out the notice.
Criticism of the Orleans Parish DA’s office grew Thursday after a Lens investigation into the practice.
