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Orleans Parish DAs office creates fake trials to let Defendants skate from charges

Posted on 7/8/25 at 7:33 pm
Posted by MrLSU
Yellowstone, Val d'isere
Member since Jan 2004
28909 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 7:33 pm
This way Jason Williams can't be accused of dismissing cases if the DA goes to trial with no evidence or real intent of even trying a convict someone. If you want to know why families are moving out of Orleans Parish in droves it is shite like this that caused them to leave.

These two Wallace and Conrad are charged with illegal
possession of a stolen gun while in possession of drugs. Wallace is a 4 time felon with convictions for distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine, extortion, domestic abuse, etc.



This post was edited on 7/8/25 at 10:54 pm
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
37144 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 7:47 pm to
Nothing shady would surprise me from Soros DA Williams, but:
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Your Honor had recently found that there was no probable cause and suppressed all the evidence in this matter.
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
12306 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 7:48 pm to
Holy moly... is that REAL?!?

How awful. It's a joke to them.
Posted by SloaneRanger
Upper Hurstville
Member since Jan 2014
12419 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 7:51 pm to
We need legislation to delegate the prosecution of all felonies in Orleans to the state AG.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
72542 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 7:54 pm to
Voters get the governance they deserve.
Posted by wadewilson
Member since Sep 2009
39740 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:00 pm to
Sounds like NOPD just needs to shoot all criminals and cover it up.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
147725 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:02 pm to
There was no evidence for trial.


You forgot to highlight this part:
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12 Your Honor had recently found that
13 there was no probable cause and
14 suppressed all the evidence in this
15 matter.



You would have bitched if the DA dismissed the case. He went to trial with zero evidence instead.


I think your anger may be misdirected in this case at least
Posted by arseinclarse
Member since Apr 2007
35266 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:03 pm to
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From 2021 to 2023, 123 bench trials were held in the court. Campbell and Roche handled more than half, 51% of them. Campbell acquitted defendants in 79% of her judge trials. In violent felony cases, that number climbed to 91%. That’s 21 acquittals out of 23 trials. Roche, in his first full year on the bench, acquitted defendants in 88% of his judge trials. Roche, who began serving a full term in 2023, acquitted defendants in 88% of his judge trials in his first full year on the bench. “These cases indicate that there is a strategic advantage for defendants to waive a jury before these two judges,” said Rafael Goyeneche, president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission. “And these two judges should not be outliers to this extent.”
Posted by boosiebadazz
Member since Feb 2008
84166 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:03 pm to
I know Ed. Take the win, buddy!
This post was edited on 7/8/25 at 8:04 pm
Posted by NoSaint
Member since Jun 2011
12421 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:06 pm to
If there was no probable cause, it was a joke from the start…


The real frustration is all three pieces- NOPD, DA and the judges have been a disaster… and it’s real hard to effect change without strides in all 3… or I guess coming in with state police for state charges and state trials to side step everything local
Posted by NoSaint
Member since Jun 2011
12421 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:14 pm to
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Can wytes sell crack, tote a Glock wit da switch, and skate free in da 504?


I’m not sure whether you will be mad or happy but… yea, they probably can more often than most places
Posted by Big Jim Slade
Member since Oct 2016
6213 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:14 pm to
Okay, let the record reflect the
deputy called the officer's name
three times in the hallway. There
Was no answer or response. ….
you got any
other witnesses, State?
The State rests.


This is mildly important. They would have tried it with the officer’s testimony but he didn’t show for whatever reason (fired, quit, ignored it, was on shift elsewhere) . So they had no evidence due to the suppression and their sole witness didn’t show. This judge likely would have denied a continuance, but they could have asked on the record -maybe they did in pre-trial. Sounds like they planned to go forward with one witness and failed. Probably weren’t getting a conviction with this judge anyway.
Posted by tLSU
Member since Oct 2007
8678 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 8:29 pm to
This is bullshite. First off, they didn't even ask for a continuance. Roche is the nicest guy ever. He isn't jamming anyone. You have the transcript, no continuance, no objection to denial. Second, they could have taken a writ or to buy time. Third, there's an NOPD Sgt assigned to get cops to court. If they call him, he will show up at their homes and drag him to court.

This was planned.
This post was edited on 7/8/25 at 8:33 pm
Posted by burgeman
Member since Jun 2008
10510 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 9:29 pm to
quote:

Your Honor had recently found that there was no probable cause and suppressed all the evidence in this matter.


I've seen this too many times in Orleans court, even if you have it air tight, they will find no probable cause.

Ex. Stolen car, 4 stolen guns in the car, 5 suspects in the car. Pursuit ends in a crash all 5 run and all 5 are caught. Driver has keys to the car.

Judge finds no probable cause for the stolen car charge and stolen gun/felon in possession charges. Only find probable cause for the agg flight charge on the driver.

Was told the police couldn't prove the driver knew the car was stolen, passengers couldn't have known it was a stolen car or that anyone knew the guns were in the car because driver had the keys.
Posted by Barbellthor
Columbia
Member since Aug 2015
10550 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 10:32 pm to
Well all evidence was suppressed, so...
Posted by DaleGribblesMower
Member since Dec 2013
6564 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 10:51 pm to
I’m no lawyer and I don’t even fully understand what all they did but my question is this: how are the people involved with all of that fraud not arrested and put under the jail?
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
147725 posts
Posted on 7/8/25 at 11:27 pm to
quote:

Campbell acquitted defendants in 79% of her judge trials. In violent felony cases, that number climbed to 91%. That’s 21 acquittals out of 23 trials. Roche, in his first full year on the bench, acquitted defendants in 88% of his judge trials. Roche, who began serving a full term in 2023, acquitted defendants in 88% of his judge trials in his first full year on the bench.
that is insane

How is judges like this not tarred and feathered?
Posted by mauser
Orange Beach
Member since Nov 2008
25970 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 3:30 am to
Are these judges on the take?
Posted by TheSadvocate
North Shore
Member since Aug 2020
4638 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 5:37 am to
At one of his first interviews after getting elected, and somehow being found not guilty after a grand jury found enough evidence to indict him on federal tax charges, he outlined a list of charges he planned on decriminalizing such as crimes of poverty. Basically giving people the right to steal from you or businesses if they were impoverished.

When you elect an activist, this is what you get.
Posted by Indefatigable
Member since Jan 2019
35440 posts
Posted on 7/9/25 at 5:38 am to
The judge suppressed all of the evidence. What did you want the DA to do?
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