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The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday publicly censured a Calcasieu Parish judge for what it called willful misconduct that favored the prosecution in a Lake Charles murder case.
These people were recently booked into the Madison County Jail.
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Fourteenth Judicial District Court Judge Michael Canaday sat before the Louisiana Judiciary Commission on Friday, March 24, due to judicial misconduct allegations stemming from his handling of the Dennis Jerome Bartie case.
The hearing revolves around Canaday's actions in the second-degree murder case of Dennis Jerome Bartie.
Nathaniel Mitchell III was convicted of second-degree murder and now faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.