Showing posts with label Louisiana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louisiana. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Louisiana looks to shed vestige of Jim Crow

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In 48 states it takes a unanimous vote from a jury to convict a person accused of committing a criminal act. And, if you think about it, tha...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Bargaining with the devil

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Corey Williams is a free man . He spent 20 years in the Angola prison in Louisiana for a murder he didn't commit. Back in 1998, Mr. Wi...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Can acting in a client's best interest violate the 14th Amendment?

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On Wednesday the US Supreme Court heard a case out of Louisiana that raised the question of whether or not a lawyer can tell a jury his clie...
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

School board members acting like petulant children

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This is how democracy works in this country. The Vermillion Parish school board met to determine whether to give the school superintenda...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Proof that the system works? Bullshit.

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"I can't go back and do anything I should have been doing when I was 35, 38, 40 stuff like that." Glenn Ford (March 11, 2014...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Update: Dying a free man

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Herman Wallace died yesterday. He died a free man after spending over 40 years in solitary confinement in the Louisiana penitentiary known...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Forty years of solitude in Angola

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For 40 years, Herman Wallace sat in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. He spent those years in so...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Busted on a Huffy

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Under the Texas Penal Code, a person commits the offense of driving while intoxicated if they operate a motor vehicle after having lost the ...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

The ordinary rules don't apply for DWI

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A ruling by Louisiana's 2nd Court of Appeals has expanded the arrest power of police officers outside their jurisdictions. Prior to the...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Interview with a vampire

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Early warning radar indicates that vampires may be descending on New Orleans this Memorial Day Weekend. These vampires are thought to be dr...