Wonder if the First Circuit has a new Trudy White Wing to add to its Janice Clark Wing

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State District Judge Trudy White, who drew the ire of James "Mucci" Stockton's family in 2015 when she reduced his killer's unanimous second-degree murder verdict to negligent homicide, offended the family again Thursday when she reluctantly — with defiant language — sentenced Stockton's killer to a mandatory term of life in prison after higher courts told her she had been wrong in 2015 to reduce the sentence.

White made it abundantly clear — and painfully so to Stockton's sister and several of his aunts — in her sentencing remarks that she stands by her opinion that Derrick Bland was too drunk and high on marijuana to have had the required specific intent to kill his brother-in-law on July 28, 2013, outside Stockton's North Lobdell Boulevard apartment.

White told Bland, 51, that his case is an example of a flawed system of justice and institutional racism. But she said she would be "obedient" and comply with the higher courts.

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The state 1st Circuit Court of Appeal reversed White last year and reinstated Bland's murder conviction, calling the judge's overturning of the unanimous jury verdict "clear legal error" and an "injustice." The Louisiana Supreme Court in April denied Bland's appeal without issuing written reasons.