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Recent domestic violence tragedies in New Orleans couldn't be …

May 15

Posted by Ricardo N. Gonzalez in criminal attorney, criminal law, defense | No Comments

The massacres coincided with the one-year anniversary of a seismic shift in the way domestic violence cases are prosecuted. Last March, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro asked New Orleans police to bring domestic arrests to his office for review, rather than to …. Groetsch said he would have preferred what he calls a hybrid court system that shares the cases between the Municipal and Criminal District Courts based on the seriousness of the crime and repeat offenders

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The Scottsboro Boys – Have We Learned Nothing?

Feb 12

Posted by Dick Stone in criminal attorney, criminal law, defense | No Comments

The juries were entirely white, and the defense attorneys had little experience in criminal law and no time to prepare their cases. As each of the nine cases successively went to the jury, the next trial was immediately begun.

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The Scottsboro Boys – Have We Learned Nothing?

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