The Assured Supervision Accountability Program, specializing in ankle monitoring, noted that suspects breaching their monitor conditions had not been rearrested until recently.
Judge Ben Willard announced in court Tuesday that the trial against Lawrence Hecker could not go forward, citing that the decision "is beyond the courts control."
Federal funding is available for eight parishes, including Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Mary and Terrebonne.