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Roland Bourgeois trial indefinitely postponed

Posted on 8/12/14 at 5:19 am
Posted by SpidermanTUba
my house
Member since May 2004
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Posted on 8/12/14 at 5:19 am
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A federal judge has indefinitely postponed the trial of Roland Bourgeois Jr., accused of firing a shotgun at three black men in Algiers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina after warning that he intended to shoot “anything coming up this street darker than a brown paper bag.”


theadvocate.com/news/neworleans/9965512-148/nine-years-later-katrina-shooting

Well that's easy!
This post was edited on 8/12/14 at 5:20 am
Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
20205 posts
Posted on 8/12/14 at 7:34 am to
Nothing easy about it at all.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
Simple Solutions to Complex Probs
Member since Jan 2004
425879 posts
Posted on 8/12/14 at 7:58 am to
quote:

The move comes after a long series of delays and questions about whether Bourgeois is competent to stand trial.


quote:

U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon on Friday granted a motion to continue a trial date for Bourgeois “until the defendant attains the physical competency to assist his attorney and to attend trial.”


in the federal system, this is rare. there is likely ample evidence of the infirmities of the defendant

Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
41307 posts
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:40 am to
Gets the trial postponed for 14 years, pleads guilty, sentenced to 10 years, dies less than a week into his sentence.



quote:

A man who admitted shooting three black men in a racist attack in Algiers shortly after Hurricane Katrina died Feb. 19, less than a week after he was sentenced to spend 10 years in federal prison, officials said Wednesday.


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Roland Bourgeois, 56, was in federal custody at the Plaquemines Parish jail when he was found unresponsive. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead after his relatives had a chance to see him, according to authorities.

The chief investigator for the Plaquemines Parish Coroner’s Office, Charles Guey, said there was no indication that Bourgeois died from anything other than natural causes.


Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:46 am to
It’s in New Orleans so the man was probably a Democrat
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 2/28/19 at 8:56 am to
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after warning that he intended to shoot “anything coming up this street darker than a brown paper bag.”


Points for creativity on that one.
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