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The Times Picayune recently reported on a battle that pits the Public Defender’s Office in New Orleans against the private criminal bar. At the root of the dispute is what […]

Is it legal to blink your headlights to warn oncoming motorists of a speed trap? Courts are sorting out the issue. Photo by Quinet via Flickr

Erich Campbell flashed his headlights to warn an […]

On Saturday, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu told an audience of nearly 2,000 activists, students, officials and relatives of murdered children that over a six month period last year, “a student at John McDonogh was […]

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I’ve written several times about the advances our judicial system has made in its attitudes and approach. However a recent article has left me scrambling to put a positive spin on […]

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Recently I read an article in the Times Picayune which got me thinking about cycles of crimes: “NOPD approach to lesser crimes questioned by those focusing on murder rate.”

At heart of […]