Haller Jackson News Today

The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard.

PrologueTwo years into his 25-year sentence for attempted aggravated rape, Nathan Brown could tell the man sitting across from him — a jailhouse lawyer improbably named Lawyer Winfield — was not going to help him get out of prison. It was astounding to Brown that he was pinning his hopes on a fellow...

Officials say the total number of people in restrictive housing has gone down, but the state doesn’t keep enough data to substantiate that claim.

Crime victims don’t have standing to sue over alleged prosecutorial misconduct if they aren’t facing prosecution, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a substituted opinion.

Haller Jackson clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jackson was widely seen as a brilliant thinker – he also clerked on the 5th Circuit and for two federal district judges – and Kozinski trusted his legal instincts. So when Jackson told Kozinski that he was hoping to find someone to file a brief calling for en banc review of a Feb. 9 ruling by the 5th Circuit, Kozinski was interested – especially when Jackson told him that the case involved a warden J...