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Caucus seeking more majority-black seats in Legislature

BATON ROUGE — Members of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus say they want to expand the number of majority-black seats in the Legislature and Congress, but they will be careful not to weaken existing districts. At an all-day event Thursday at the Southern University Law Center, state and national figures involved in drawing election districts […]

Catherine Logue

Catherine Logue is an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). She joins LDF from the Legal Aid Society where she worked as a public defender in Bronx, New York, representing indigent clients in trial-level criminal cases. Catherine received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2019. During law school, […]

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Case of Eyewitness vs. Alibi Raises Question of Defense Lawyers’ Competence

Richard Rosario was convicted of a murder that took place on Turnbull Avenue in the Bronx on June 19, 1996, based on the testimony of two witnesses who had picked his picture out of a book of mug shots. There was no other evidence linking him to the crime. He did not know the victim, […]

Case more about racism than felon voting rights

On its face, Farakkhan v. Gregoire is about whether felons have the right to vote. But it's really about institutionalized racism: namely whether Washington's criminal justice system treats minorities unfairly. "You have vast disproportionate rates of incarceration and sentencing for African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans," said Dale Ho, one of the NAACP Legal Defense and […]

Case in Point: LDF Outlines Four Holes in Officer Betty Shelby’s Defense

Two nights ago, a jury in Tulsa, Oklahoma, found Police Officer Betty Jo Shelby not guilty of first-degree manslaughter for the September 2016 roadside killing of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed Black man. The verdict reinforced, once again, that police officers are almost never convicted for killing unarmed African Americans. While every one of these cases is unique, […]

Case in Point: Four Holes in Officer Betty Shelby’s Defense

By David Jacobs, Senior Communications Associate at LDF Two nights ago, a jury in Tulsa, Oklahoma, found Police Officer Betty Jo Shelby not guilty of first-degree manslaughter for the September 2016 roadside killing of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed Black man. The verdict reinforced, once again, that police officers are almost never convicted for killing unarmed African Americans. […]

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