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Originally Posted by lazycash
Lol, that happens in every city, if the prosecutor fails to meet the burden of proof for an indictment in a set time period then they can't continue holding someone and you can't call him/her a murderer if they haven't been proven guilty yet. Now if you'd said their overloaded system is causing some suspected felons to be set free because they don't have the resources and time to prosecute then that might have been plausible.
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Did you bother to even read the article?
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Three days later, Morgan was arrested. Sixty days after that, he walked free on a 701 release, leaving the case cold and now closed. The reason, prosecutors noted for the record, was that they never received a police report within the 60-day period. That's the same reason the other seven murder cases from the same seven-month stretch in 2005 tanked.
Jump to July 2006. The two men accused of trying to kill police officer Kevin Thomas in Algiers during a post-Katrina looting spree were released from jail after almost 10 months in jail. Prosecutors say they knew about the case all along but couldn't make a case given the deficiencies of the post-Katrina era
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Not a damn thing to do with "burden of proof" - read next time...
after katrina they let thousands of criminals go because they couldnt even house them, let alone worry about guilty or not...
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In the eight months before the hurricane, the city released 187 people on a 701, including eight murder suspects, prosecutors' records show. In 2006, the number of releases soared to about 3,000. And last month alone, 580 people escaped legal custody of either jail or a bond obligation only because prosecutors couldn't pull together a case ahead of the deadline imposed by law.
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the other big thing is witness intimidation, its a small place. You rat on someone here, your family get shot.
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Prosecutors and police blame a lack of witness cooperation for derailed murder cases, and Criminal District Court is littered with files that are dead on arrival when a witness backs out or disappears.
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you can try to take up for these criminals, but around here, you know these people are guilty, many have been arrested MULTIPLE times for MURDER dude.
the police are still running cases out of TRAILERS, there isnt even a CRIME LAB in NOLA LOL
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The lack of a local crime lab is taking a toll on the system and the crime rate, he said.
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But hey, yeah it happens in every city, but not quite like its happening here...
read next time:
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpa...l=1&thispage=3