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The First Circuit Court of Appeal in Baton Rouge ruled against The Times-Picayune and CNN, which have been fighting in court for four years to unseal the records of former Attorney General Charles Foti’s explosive investigation into whether doctors and Read more

Troopers seized more than $15,000 from Hybrid Poker Club on George O’Neal Road, State Police Troop A spokesman Russell Graham said. State Police spent four months investigating Hybrid Poker Club and sent a trooper undercover to observe the club’s gambling Read more

Former Baton Rouge resident Milton Windsor Harris, who once faked his death, was back in the city Friday after an absence of 16 years. Harris became a federal fugitive in February 1995 rather than face allegations that he failed to Read more

Question: Is a visible construction tool probable cause for an arrest? In United States v. Irizarry, 509 F. Supp. 2d 198, 209 (E.D.N.Y. 2007), a police officer saw the defendant walking with a metal instrument clipped to his pants. He Read more

A Baton Rouge man accused in the March 27 murders of two Airline Highway auto parts store workers told sheriff’s detectives he visited the store once the day before and twice the day of the killings, but denied involvement in Read more

Question: Is an aluminum food container evidence of computer trespassing? Thus far, no court has found possession of coffee or soup cans to be evidence of computer trespass, although one “cantenna” prosecution has been brought relying on the discovery of Read more

I recently read an interesting article about the ever-changing legal precedence due to certain items, especially technology, becoming more and more commonplace.  The article cited a few cases that I would like to discuss in parts. Question: Does a cell Read more

Baton Rouge rapper, Lil Boosie, arrived at district court Tuesday morning for a pre-trial motion and ended up pleading guilty to drug charges. Lil Boosie, whose real name is Torrence Hatch, pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiring to bring Read more

Dr. Conrad Murray was sentenced to the four year maximum in prison today for his conviction of involuntary manslaughter in the Michael Jackson case. Murray told detectives he had been giving Michael Jackson nightly doses of Propofol to help him Read more