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Nghana tamu Lewis is an American judge, lawyer, and academic from Lafayette, Louisiana. [1] In January 2021, Lewis took the bench to serve as the Division B 40th District Court judge, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. [2]
Employment discrimination against persons with criminal records in the United States has been illegal since enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [citation needed] Employers retain the right to lawfully consider an applicant's or employee's criminal conviction(s) for employment purposes e.g., hiring, retention, promotion, benefits, and delegated duties.
At that time, the Louisiana State Constitution and Code of Criminal Procedure [2] allowed for a less-than-unanimous jury to convict a defendant of a crime where hard labor is available as punishment. Under those laws, nine members of a twelve-juror panel were enough to secure the conviction of the accused.
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[3] [4] After the Louisiana Supreme Court dismissed the state's appeal, the New Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro claimed the state planned to retry Jones on the same charges. [5] However, as Jones was preparing for a pretrial hearing that his attorneys said would highlight prosecutorial misconduct in the case, the DA's office dropped ...
Evangelisto Ramos walked out of a New Orleans courthouse and away from a life sentence accompanying a 10-2 jury conviction, thanks in large part to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision bearing ...
State Representative Earle S. Banks (D) convicted of fraud. (2023) [93] John Davis (R) State Director of the Department of Human Resources (DHS) and five others embezzled 98 million dollars from the State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. He pled guilty to conspiracy and fraud and was sentenced to 90 years in prison. (2022 ...
Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber , 329 U.S. 459 (1947), is a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court was asked whether imposing capital punishment (the electric chair ) a second time, after it failed in an attempt to execute Willie Francis in 1946, [ 1 ] constituted a violation of the United States Constitution .