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NEWS IN BRIEF
Article • March 1, 2026 • from CLN April, 2026
NEWS IN BRIEF by Alaska: Alaska News Source reported that former Bethel Police Department (BPD) Off. Jonathan Murphy, 39, was convicted on February 13, 2026, of a brutal use of force. Body-camera footage captured Murphy during a December 2023 stolen-vehicle stop as he struck the compliant driver, Bernard Mael. When …
NEWS IN BRIEF
Article • January 1, 2026 • from CLN February, 2026
NEWS IN BRIEF by Alabama: WABM in Birmingham reported that former Eleventh Judicial Circuit Presiding Judge Gilbert P. Self, 64, was sentenced to 51-­1/2 years in state prison on December 17, 2025, following his conviction the previous month on public corruption charges. As CLN reported, a jury found him guilty …
NEWS IN BRIEF
Article • December 15, 2025 • from CLN January, 2026
NEWS IN BRIEF by Alabama: In a rare victory for ethics enforcement in the Cotton State, a Lauderdale County jury returned a guilty verdict on November 7, 2025, against a former state judge accused of public corruption. According to the Alabama Political Reporter, Gilbert Porterfield Self, Sr., former presiding judge …
NEWS IN BRIEF
Article • November 15, 2025 • from CLN December, 2025
NEWS IN BRIEF by Alabama: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama sentenced former Centre Police Department (CPD) Off. Michael Kilgore, 41, to four years in federal prison on October 8, 2025, after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in a wild evidence-­planting scheme to …
Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict-Punitive Damages, Wrongful Death, 2025
Brief • October 21, 2025
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict-Punitive Damages, Wrongful Death, 2025 Case 3:16-cv-01007-TAD-KDM Document 670 36634 Filed 10/21/25 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MONROE DIVISION ERIE MOORE JR ET AL CASE NO. 3:16-CV-01007 VERSUS JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY LASALLE CORRECTIONS …
Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict, Wrongful Death, 2025
Brief • October 20, 2025
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict, Wrongful Death, 2025 Case 3:16-cv-01007-TAD-KDM Document 664 36616 Filed 10/20/25 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: RECEIVED USDC, WESTERN DISTRICT OF LA DANIEL J. McCOY, CLERK UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MONROE DIVISION ERIE MOORE JR ET AL CASE …
NEWS IN BRIEF
Article • October 15, 2025 • from CLN November, 2025
NEWS IN BRIEF by California: Former Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Joseph Dessert, 42, was sentenced to nine years in prison on August 8, 2025, for sexually abusing his teenage daughter. According to The Modesto Bee, County Superior Court Judge Jeff Mangar said that the lawman violated his office’s trust …
Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections, LA, Amicus Brief, Religious Practice, 2025
Brief • September 3, 2025
Filed under: Religious Freedom, Religious Practices, Religious Freedom/Worship
Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections, LA, Amicus Brief, Religious Practice, 2025 No. 23-1197 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States ________________ DAMON LANDOR, Petitioner, v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND PUBLIC SAFETY, ET AL., Respondents. ________________ ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR …
New Orleans Police Continue Using Facial Recognition 
Despite City Restrictions
Article • July 1, 2025 • from CLN July, 2025
Filed under: Police State-Surveillance, Cell-Site-Location Records, Electronic Surveillance, Authorization
New Orleans Police Continue Using Facial Recognition Despite City Restrictions by James Mills The New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD”) has used artificial intelligence-­powered facial recognition technology since at least 2018, often bypassing city ordinances designed to limit such surveillance, according to public records, internal emails, and a 2025 Washington Post …
Fifth Circuit: Sentence Enhancement for Maintaining Drug Premises Not Satisfied Solely by Defendant’s Single, Conclusory Statement That He ‘Maintained’ Premises When Record Shows Mere ‘Use’ of Premise...
Article • April 15, 2025 • from CLN May, 2025
Filed under: Premises Liability, Witnesses - Prior Statements/Testimony, Felony Drug Offense, Confessions and Statements of Defendant
Fifth Circuit: Sentence Enhancement for Maintaining Drug Premises Not Satisfied Solely by Defendant’s Single, Conclusory Statement That He ‘Maintained’ Premises When Record Shows Mere ‘Use’ of Premises by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. District Court …
Bite Marks and Broken Justice: A Louisiana Man’s Life and Death Struggle Against Junk Science
Article • March 15, 2025 • from CLN April, 2025
Filed under: junk science, Wrongful Conviction
Bite Marks and Broken Justice: A Louisiana Man’s Life and Death Struggle Against Junk Science by David Kim by David Kim In a Louisiana courtroom last September, attorney Scott Greene stood before those in attendance and issued a stark warning: The video they were about to see would unsettle them. …
Angola Prisoners Granted Limited Relief From “Farm Line” Work
Article • November 15, 2024 • from CLN November, 2024
Filed under: Prison Labor, Grounds for Relief, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Angola Prisoners Granted Limited Relief From “Farm Line” Work by "No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails,” Nelson Mandela once wrote. That was also the quote chosen by Judge Brian A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana in …
Louisiana Becomes First State in Nation to Allow Judges to Order Surgical Castration for Sex Offenders
Article • October 1, 2024 • from CLN October, 2024
Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Surgery, Sex Offender Treatment, Chemical Castration
Louisiana Becomes First State in Nation to Allow Judges to Order Surgical Castration for Sex Offenders by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In a controversial move among its “get tough on crime” measures advanced in the February special legislative session, Louisiana became the first state to permit surgical …
Louisiana Supreme Court Finds Prosecution Withheld Favorable Impeachment and Exculpatory Evidence in Violation of Brady
Article • August 1, 2024 • from CLN August, 2024
Filed under: Exculpatory No Doctrine, Resentencing, Evidence - Failure to Disclose, Remands/Rehearings/Resentencings
Louisiana Supreme Court Finds Prosecution Withheld Favorable Impeachment and Exculpatory Evidence in Violation of Brady by Matthew Clarke The Supreme Court of Louisiana vacated four 23-year-old convictions and death sentences because the prosecution withheld impeachment and exculpatory evidence in violation of the defendant’s due process rights. In 2001, Darrell J. …
Voice of the Experienced v. Leblanc, LA, Ruling and Order, Conditions of Confinement, 2024
Brief • July 2, 2024
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Exposure to Heat
Voice of the Experienced v. Leblanc, LA, Ruling and Order, Conditions of Confinement, 2024 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 1 of 78 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 2 of 78 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 3 of 78 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 4 of 78 …
Facial Recognition’s Distorted View
Article • May 15, 2024 • from CLN May, 2024
Filed under: False Arrest, Police State-Surveillance
Facial Recognition’s Distorted View by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson There is a tendency within the human brain to settle on the first solution even when another, better solution is available. Automated facial recognition (“AFR”) systems can exacerbate the problem simply by the fact that they are designed to …
One Year of New Orleans Police Department Facial Recognition Data
Article • April 15, 2024 • from CLN April, 2024
Filed under: Racial Profiling, Police State-Surveillance, Electronic Surveillance
One Year of New Orleans Police Department Facial Recognition Data by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson About a year after the New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD”) performed its first facial recognition scan under a new policy that reauthorized its use, they have little to show for it. That is …
Fifth Circuit Affirms Habeas Relief Granted to Capital Defendant Where Counsel Failed to Impeach State’s Pivotal Wit-ness with Available Forensic Evidence
Article • January 15, 2024 • from CLN January, 2024
Filed under: AEDPA, Effective Assistance of Counsel, Counsel - Effective Assistance of, Strickland Standard, Identification Documents/Evidence, Failure to Consult/Investigate/Raise, Trial Strategy, Strickland v. Washington
Fifth Circuit Affirms Habeas Relief Granted to Capital Defendant Where Counsel Failed to Impeach State’s Pivotal Wit-ness with Available Forensic Evidence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana’s grant of habeas …
Greenwald v. Cantrell, LA, Order and Reasons, Failure to Comply With SORNA, 2023
Brief • December 21, 2023
Filed under: Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act
Greenwald v. Cantrell, LA, Order and Reasons, Failure to Comply With SORNA, 2023 Case 2:22-cv-02371-JTM-DPC Document 98 Filed 12/21/23 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA KENDRA GREENWALD CIVIL ACTION VERSUS NO: 22-2371 LATOYA CANTRELL ET AL. SECTION “H” ORDER AND REASONS Before the Court …
Louisiana Sheriffs Repeatedly and Conveniently Destroy Public Records
Article • December 15, 2023 • from CLN December, 2023
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Public Records Act, Police/Govt Misconduct
Louisiana Sheriffs Repeatedly and Conveniently Destroy Public Records by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart There are 64 sheriffs across the state of Louisiana. Despite what many of them apparently believe, they are subject to certain rules and laws, just like the rest of us. That message just hasn’t reached some …
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