Obama Will Travel To New Orleans To Commemorate Hurricane Katrina Anniversary
He will also visit several New Orleans community development projects and resilience efforts and make remarks at a convening of national philanthropic, policy and community leaders.
But officers said the shooting was in self-defense, that they were fired upon when they arrived and returned fire. The government could seek a rehearing before the full 15-member appeals court. An additional officer was convicted on lesser charges related to falsified statements and reports.
Two assistant US attorneys resigned following the scandal, a Justice Department lawyer was reprimanded and New Orleans-based US Attorney Jim Letten resigned. That prosecutor, Sal Perricone, eventually resigned.
“The case was overturned because of the commenting (scandal), not because of problems with the evidence in the trial”, Mosca said. The outrage over the bridge shooting, Engelhardt wrote, shouldn’t excuse prosecutors’ actions.
For years, the system was low on academic achievement and high on corruption.
Former Sgt. Arthur “Archie” Kaufman also was convicted in the cover-up and will get a new trial. The retrial will take place in front of U.S. District Judge Kurt Englehardt, who wrote a scathing review of prosecution tactics in his 129-page order granting the defendants the second trial. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision. Allen’s worked with four or five principals in that time.
Amid the chaos after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, Vera Smith’s body decayed for four days on a sidewalk until her horrified neighbors covered her with dirt, a makeshift plastic shroud and a bleak epitaph:…
“It is very easy to look back and say, “Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused all of our problems”, the Republican presidential candidate said at the New Hampshire Education Summit.