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Beyond the matrix: How one of New Orleans’ longest-serving cops got the boot

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By John Simerman Verified
| The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Verified
More than a dozen law enforcement leaders were gathered around a conference table a few days before Thanksgiving last year at New Orleans Police Department headquarters, going through a “tabletop exercise” ahead of the Bayou Classic. Deputy Chief Nicholas Gernon asked one of the NOPD’s longest-serving officers about barricades. The question did not agree with Major Raymond Burkart Jr., a 57-year NOPD veteran.
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How Louisiana nitrogen gas executions could be affected by court ruling on Alabama

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By John Simerman Verified
| The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) Verified
Advocates for death row inmates in Louisiana are praising a decision this month by the U.S. Supreme Court that barred Alabama from carrying out its latest scheduled execution by nitrogen gas, while Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill panned the outcome as the work of a “rogue judge.” The unsigned 6-3 decision in the case of Alabama double murderer Jeffery Lee denied Alabama’s emergency request to lift a lower court ban on killing him with nitrogen gas.
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Are ‘six pack’ juries, used in Louisiana, constitutional? U.S. Supreme Court to decide

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By John Simerman Verified
| The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) Verified
In crimes where Louisiana’s criminal code does not specify hard labor upon a conviction, six-person juries can decide a defendant’s guilt. It’s been that way for well over a century. But last week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in a Florida case that “6-pack” juries like those in Louisiana and a handful of other states are half what the U.S. Constitution requires, based on history. The petitioners in the Florida case lean heavily on the high court’s 2020 decision in Ramos v.
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