NOPD compiles list of cops with credibility issues at DA s request Share Updated: 6:25 PM CDT May 25, 2021 Share Updated: 6:25 PM CDT May 25, 2021
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Show Transcript INVESTIGATES REPORTED EARLIER THIS YEAR POLICE DEPARTMENTS ARE EXPECTED TO KEEP A LIST OF COPS WHOSE CREDIBILITY COULD BE CALLED INTO QUESTION. WELL, IT’S IN CASE THEY EVER HAVE TO TESTIFY IN CRTOU WE’VE BEEN ASKING FOR THAT LIST FOR MONTHS OYNL TO BE TOLD THAT IT DOESN’T EXIST THE LENS REPORTS. IT’S UP TO BEF O THE LIST FROM THE DA’S OFFICE, IT GOES BACK EIGHT YEARS AND INCLUDES 38 OFFICERS WHO STILL WORK ON THE FORCE ERIC KESSLER REPRESENTS THE POLICE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS. HE’S ALSO BEEN ASKING FOR A COPY OF THAT LIST. YOU KNOW, THIS ISN’T BRAIN SURGERY. IT’S IT’S REAL IMPORTANT INFORMIOATN THAT’S NEEDED FOR BOTH SIDESO T YOU KNOW BE PREPARED FOR A TRIAL SO WE CAN HAVE A FAIR OUTCOME. AND I THINK THAT’S ALL ANYBODY WANTS AND THAT’S ALL THAT
Tell your children how much you love them | Two teenagers gunned down in Gentilly
In an effort to tackle the problem, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office will host a youth violence prevention summit. Author: Paul Dudley / Eyewitness News Published: 10:28 PM CDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 10:28 PM CDT May 11, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Shots rang out in Gentilly just after 7 a.m. Tuesday along the 4200 block of Hamburg Street.
What led up to the shooting is still unclear, but a 16 and a 17-year-old were killed. They’re the latest victims of violent crime in New Orleans.
“It’s scary living here,” DeCarlas O’Neal-Johnson said.
Washington s governor commutes some drug possession sentences after the state s Supreme Court voids its felony drug possession law, the St. Louis County Council votes to decriminalize pot possession, the Orleans Parish prosecutors is not going to try most drug possession cases anymore and more.
There s a move afoot in Congress to finally end the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
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Connecticut Poll Finds Strong Support for Marijuana Legalization, Expungement. As legislators ponder whether to make Connecticut the next state to legalize marijuana, a new poll from Sacred Heart University shows strong popular support for the move. The poll had support at 66%, with 62% saying that if marijuana is legalized, those with prior marijuana convictions should have their records expunged.
Louisiana Man, 67, Released From Prison for Stealing Two Shirts 20 Years Ago
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Guy Frank is finally free, after stealing two shirts 20 years ago.
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According to the Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO), Guy Frank was released from prison in Louisiana after serving 20 years for stealing two shirts from Saks 5th Avenue in New Orleans in 2000. Innocence Project New Orleans works to free innocent people sentenced to life in prison as well as advocates for sensible criminal justice policies that reduce wrongful convictions. IPNO also strives to support clients, like Frank, to live well and fully in the world after their release. IPNO was created when its founding director Emily Bolton was awarded a two-year fellowship from the National Association for Public Interest Law (now Equal Justice Works) for reviewing the cases of life-sentenced prisoners in Louisiana who may have been wrongly convicted but had no way of proving it from inside prison without a lawye