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Jury trials won t start in New Orleans for another two weeks
COVID-19 basically shut down the courthouse for the last year-and-a-half, but with restrictions loosening, jury trials will soon begin again. Author: Danny Monteverde / Eyewitness News Published: 9:01 PM CDT July 6, 2021 Updated: 9:01 PM CDT July 6, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Defense attorney Kevin Boshea made his way into the Orleans Parish Criminal Courthouse for the first time in more than a year on Tuesday. He says he was ready to get back to representing his clients before a jury of their peers.
While the court said that would begin again today, that will now happen July 19. Boshea says those jury trials need to begin as soon as possible because of a growing backlog of cases.
Thousands of criminal cases on COVID hold as victims, defendants await justice
Neither the defendants who sit in jail nor the victims who await justice are being served by the pandemic-induced wait for a trial. Author: David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 10:25 PM CST February 17, 2021 Updated: 10:50 PM CST February 17, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Bob Arthur hasn’t been waiting passively for justice in the four years since his 40-year-old son, Shawn, turned up dead in his Metairie apartment.
Bob Arthur hired private investigators and worked with a Huffington Post reporter for more than a year to gather evidence that finally convinced the Jefferson Parish coroner and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office that Shawn’s death wasn’t an accident.
As car break-ins continue to soar in Orleans, solutions remain elusive
“I m going to tell you, if you arrest a guy 10 times for breaking into cars, he didn t break into 10 cars. He just got caught 10 times,” said Councilman Jay Banks. Author: Danny Monteverde / Eyewitness News Published: 5:43 PM CST January 25, 2021 Updated: 5:43 PM CST January 25, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Broken glass on the ground next to cars is a sight that has become far too common to many New Orleanians. Already in 2021 there have been at least 550 car break-ins across the city.
There were 5,299 last year.
As the number of car break-ins swells in the city, the search for solutions is on and it took center stage Monday during a meeting of the City Council’s Criminal Justice and Community Development committees.
Updated: 5:48 PM CST Jan 14, 2021
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Show Transcript SULA: JUVENILE CRIME ACROSS THE CITY IS ON THE RISE AND THE NEW TOP PROSECUTOR IN NEW ORLEANS SAYS TEENS ARRESTED FOR SERIOUS CRIMES WILL WILL TRIED IN JUVE JUVENILE COURT. A STRATEGY SOME ARE QUESTIONING. WDSU’S TRAVERS MACKEL IS LIVE AT THE DA’S OFFICE WHY WILLIAMS SA THIS STANCE IS NEEDE TRAVERS: THE NEW DA SAYS CHARGING TEENS 15,16 A 17-YEARS-OLD AS ADULTS HAS NOT MADE THE CITY SAFER AND NOW HE’ TRYING SOMETHING NEW. HE SAYS JUVENILES WILL BE TRIED IN JUVENILE COURT. YOUTH CRIME PLAGUED THE CITY IN 2019 AND IN 2020. THEFTS, BREAK-INS AND ARNED ARMED ROBBERIES. MANY OF THOSE INCIDENTS CAUGHT ON CAMERA. GINO ASCANI IS A LAKEVIEW CRIME ACTIVIST WHO RUNS A FACEBOOK PAGE DOCUMENTING CRIMES IN THA NEIGHBORHOOD. IF THE KID IS A CAREER CRIMINAL THEN THEY NEED TO BE TREATED AS ONE. BUT THE NEW DA ISN’’T BUYING THAT. AND SAYS ON HIS WATCH THE BULK OF JUVENILE CRIMES WILL BE HANDLED IN JUV