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27 de ene. de 2024 · Jan. 27, 2024. Harry Connick Sr., a long-serving district attorney in New Orleans whose office gained national notoriety for prosecutorial overreach that eventually resulted in many reversed...
In 2007, John Thompson, who was wrongfully convicted of murder by Connick's DA office due to evidence withholding, was awarded a $14 million verdict by a federal court jury. The jury found "that Thompson's 18 years behind bars (14 of which he spent in solitary confinement on death row) were caused by Connick's deliberate failure to ...
- 2; Including Harry Connick Jr.
- Eddie Jordan
29 de mar. de 2011 · In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court today overturned a jury verdict and lower-court rulings awarding $14 million to a former Louisiana death row inmate who had sued then-New Orleans DA Harry Connick Sr. after prosecutors neglected to turn over evidence that would have been helpful to his defense.
30 de mar. de 2011 · A bitterly divided Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a jury verdict won by a New Orleans man who spent 14 years on death row and came within weeks of execution because prosecutors had hidden a...
- david.savage@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
After nearly two decades of wrongfully being imprisoned, Thompson was found not guilty in the retrial. Thompson eventually sued Connick and several of his assistant district attorneys for suppression of evidence and won a verdict of $14 million. Opinion of the court
- Scalia, joined by Alito
- Connick, District Attorney, et al. v. Thompson
- Ginsburg, joined by Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
- Thomas, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Alito
26 de ene. de 2024 · NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Harry Connick Sr., who was New Orleans’ district attorney for three decades and later faced allegations that his staff sometimes held back evidence that could have helped defendants, died Thursday at age 97.
26 de jul. de 1990 · The longtime District Attorney of New Orleans, Harry Connick, was acquitted today of Federal charges that he had aided and abetted an illegal gambling operation. The 12-member jury deliberated...
