The restriction, if adopted, would represent a significant change to a decades-old rule that now requires only a written motion signed by the defendant and his attorney to forgo a jury.

The Chopin Law Firm wins Best Law Firm in Gambit’s Best of New Orleans® 2025, earning community trust and recognition for ...

Calvin Duncan was 19 in 1982 when the police arrested him for a murder-robbery in New Orleans. The eyewitness testimony at his trial was unreliable, but Duncan's lawyer offered only a minimal defense, ...

While support from survivors of clergy sexual abuse appeared to be coalescing around the settlement proposa l in the ...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell now has to pay a woman she accused of stalking thousands in legal fees after the Louisiana ...

Peter M. Thomson, a longtime attorney with Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as inspector general of the Central Intelligence Agency. Thomson, nominated ...

The last of 10 inmates who escaped a New Orleans jail in mid-May was captured Wednesday, after a tip led law enforcement to ...

NEW ORLEANS — Derrick Groves, the last remaining fugitive from the Orleans Justice Center jailbreak, is now in custody after a standoff with police in Atlanta Wednesday. Authorities said a ...

After nearly five months on the run, U.S. Marshals confirm Derrick Groves, the last fugitive from the May jailbreak at the ...