New Orleans

February 14, 2017 (Fault Lines) – People probably aren’t surprised to hear witnesses regularly lie in criminal trials. But they might be surprised it’s not usually those slimy defense lawyers that put the liars on the...

January 23, 2017 (Fault Lines) — We’ve previously covered Louisiana’s Blue Lives Matter law, along with a couple of unsuccessful attempts to enforce it in New Orleans. Unfortunately, it appears that St. Martinville, LA police chief...

January 6, 2017 (Fault Lines) – From time to time, people get into pissing contests. One person irks another person and a grudge develops. Hopefully, most of us are grownup enough to leave it at that....

September 9, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Raul Delatoba sounds like a jerk. At five in the morning, he started drunkenly banging on the window of a nice hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans. When...

August 3, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Ed. Note: Scott Greenfield and David Meyer-Lindenberg cross Orleans Chief Public Defender, Derwyn Bunton, who has taken a stand by refusing to take on defendants his office cannot adequately represent...

June 2, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — A trial date has been set for two recanting witnesses. Just last week, Fault Lines contributor Matt Brown covered the details behind the baseless case against Jerome Morgan. In short,...

Apr. 22, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — On April 20, a federal judge sentenced five former New Orleans cops for their roles in the September 4, 2005 shooting of six unarmed, law-abiding pedestrians on the Danziger Bridge,...

Apr. 21, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Good morning folks. Your links today: Four former New Orleans officers Robert Gisevius, Kenneth Bowen, Anthony Villavaso and Robert Faulcon pleaded guilty and were sentenced to between 7 and 12 years...

Apr. 12, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — In New Orleans, if you cannot afford a lawyer when you are accused of a crime, the Orleans Parish Public Defenders Office is appointed to represent you. You know, because...

Mar. 16, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Morning folks, the links today: The four former New Orleans cops awaiting retrial for the deadly shootings that occurred on Danziger bridge following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have asked the...