This Louisiana prosecutor...
• Was forced to resign from the DA’s office for submitting false paperwork
• Withheld evidence in at least 3 death row cases
• Compared a Black teen to a dog and told the jury to “get rid of it”
Now he’s running for judge.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hugo-holland-louisiana-judge-race-controversies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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@Rawcastlabs @ProPublica well thankfully there’s an article:
“Holland had concealed a trove of evidence that they said proved his innocence: Witnesses on the night of the murder told police Williams was innocent, and detectives stated at the time that they believed several older men were responsible and trying to pin the blame on Williams [who has a “severe intellectual disability”]”
He also kept a portrait of a Confederate & KKK leader in his office but sure, “baiting”
@fencepost @ProPublica If you can overmatch your opponent "all or nothing" scores the whole pot.
Note that in my own life I have won many confrontations including against a grand jury by jacking up the stakes until the other side quits. When that 2018 grand jury folded, I asked the assembled press: "I win, they lose, any questions?"
Here's an overmatch scenario for the case in question: Trump's government is overthrown, rots out, whatever. The Nuremburg II tribunal is hard at work in the courthouse, hearing cases against a second generation of Nazi war criminals.
Those whose crimes caused death faced the rope at the last round of Nuremburg proceedings. Again the learned judges sit to hear cases, again the Nazi butchers are brought to court one by one. Again everything is on the table
Some of the defendents are venal like the typists that collated railroad schedules to the camps. Some of them are monsterous like Joseph Mengele.
Remember we are talking about the outcome of a war after years of fire, fury, suffering, and destruction.
It will be very hard to restrain public demands for eye for an eye justice. This will be no different than the end of any other civil war anywhere else on the planet.
@LukefromDC @ProPublica that's all well and good but I'm not talking about anything in front of a jury. You're jumping *way* ahead there. I'm talking first about something that *can be passed into law.*
If you think you're going to get a legislature (in which attorneys are almost certainly overrepresented with quite a few having prosecution backgrounds) to agree to pass something that calls for prosecutors to face capital charges then you're delusional. Getting misconduct officially codified as a criminal activity deserving of prosecution would already be an extreme lift that could likely only happen as a direct and immediate response to a wrongful execution getting huge public attention.
Keep in mind that it's still very hard to prosecute discussions of postwar tribunals, judges and juries, and a gallows.
@ProPublica
“In at least two death penalty cases, Louisiana judges found that Holland withheld evidence. In a third, he secured the conviction of a Black 16-year-old… prosecutors later admitted that Holland and his team had failed to turn over evidence.”
Three cases of withholding evidence. Where was the accountability from Louisiana’s courts and state Bar association?
@ProPublica
> Witheld evidence in at least 3 death row cases
Every such case is made to prevent the prosecution of a wealthy white perpetrator.
A racist Loozyanna cracker fails upwards. Story at 11.
If this accusation was enough to get him fired and withholding evidence is a crime, why was he not prosecuted, or at least disbarred?
"Freedom at a Cost: The Devastating Case of Corey Williams"
By Innocence Staff
06 June 2018
"...
Hugo Holland, a Caddo Parish assistant district attorney, was responsible for Williams’ conviction. Before Williams, Holland had tried dozens of death-penalty cases and put at least 10 people, most of whom were men of color, on death row. Years later, half of Holland’s death-penalty convictions were overturned, and two are awaiting appeals. In three of those cases, including Williams’, Holland was accused of withholding evidence.
Holland was fired as a Caddo Parish assistant district attorney in 2012, but he quickly found a well-paying job as a prosecutor-for-hire and as a lobbyist for Caddo Parish.
..."
https://innocenceproject.org/news/freedom-at-a-cost-the-case-of-corey-williams/
@ProPublica @LibraryJRP
Disgusting! He should be barred from holding any public office... but 'Murica🙄
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