ProPublica20h ago

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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He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge.

Holland, who once compared a Black child to a dog, has had a career mired in controversy. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming the de facto frontrunner of his judicial race.

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Show threadAlan Miller  🇺🇦19h ago
@ProPublica prosecutorial misconduct in capital cases should involve mandatory prosecution for conspiracy to commit murder.
Show threadLukefromDC14h ago
@fencepost @ProPublica And such prosecutors should themselves be executed if they got anyone executed OR if their misconduct got someone jailed who then died in custody for any reason.
Show threadAlan Miller  🇺🇦
@LukefromDC @ProPublica overreach gets you nowhere and all-or-nothing gets you nothing.
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Show threadLukefromDC5h ago

@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.

Show threadAlan Miller  🇺🇦5h ago

@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.

Show threadLukefromDC5h ago
@fencepost @ProPublica That of course could happen at any time with this regime.
Show threadAlan Miller  🇺🇦5h ago
@LukefromDC @ProPublica if you're of the attitude "better no punishment than inadequate punishment" then I guess there's nothing more to say, but that kind of purity demand rarely ends well.
Show threadLukefromDC5h ago

@fencepost @ProPublica

Keep in mind that it's still very hard to prosecute discussions of postwar tribunals, judges and juries, and a gallows.