It doesn’t happen often, and I hope it never happens again, but the slim conservative majority on the Supreme Court let me down. I’m betting John Thompson of Louisiana feels the same way. The case was ...

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius' 22-year odyssey on behalf of a former Louisiana death row inmate ended Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hold a district attorney's office liable for the inmate's ...

In a speech Monday night, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens made clear his displeasure with the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Connick v. Thompson and urged congressional action ...

The city’s top prosecutor from 1973 to 2003, he led an office that sent hundreds of Black men to prison and became known for its record of wrongful convictions. By Adam Nossiter Harry Connick Sr., a ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Harry Connick Sr., who was New Orleans' district attorney for three decades and later faced allegations that his staff sometimes held back evidence that could have helped defendants, ...