Jillian Kramer

The division will continue its work under a different leader, District Attorney Jason Williams says.

A New Orleans jury has convicted a man of killing his pregnant girlfriend in front of her three-year-old child. The jurors found Jermaine Brisco, 31, guilty of second-degree murder, first-degree feticide, obstruction of justice and cruelty to a juvenile in the 2016 slaying.

Prosecutors accused him of spitting on and slapping a woman in front of her child in 2019.

The Louisiana Attorney General’s Office signed a contract with Bancroft Global Development for $3 million, the most lucrative deal the security-consulting firm has inked in Louisiana since Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams introduced it to the state in a cascade of praise.

Police officer Trevor Abney survived for two years after someone shot him just below the eye on Oct. 30, 2020, in what police and prosecutors have described as an ambush of a stopped patrol car on St. Philip Street in New Orleans.

Orleans Public Defenders this week made a case for how the agency would spend additional city funds next year, money it said will help meet the demands of the city’s growing criminal docket.

Citing disrespect from prosecutors, Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Benedict Willard recused himself Tuesday morning from the case of Lawrence Hecker.

New Orleans judge acquits 14 charged with misdemeanors after pro-Palestinian protest at Tulane University.

A judge on Thursday set a tentative trial date for a geriatric former priest accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy nearly five decades ago while he was serving in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, following weeks of upheaval as his mental competency was questioned.

Police did not say whether the robberies could be related. No one was injured.