Some Local Crime News from the Federal Court in New Orleans
NOLA Brothel Saga Ending. -- The Times-Picayune reports that Federal Eastern District Judge Lemelle gave the mother and daughter who ran the Canal Street brothel lenient sentences to end the prostitution saga. In what the article denoted as a rare display of judicial candor, Judge Lemelle indicated that the case was far more appropriate for state court:
In unusually strong comments from the bench, Lemelle questioned whether the case should have been pursued by federal authorities at all. "The term dysfunction might also be applied to how we got to this point," he said. . . Lemelle added that there was a "disparity of justice" in charging primarily madams and prostitutes and not their well-heeled customers.
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Interesting New Orleans crime news about the strange twists of a misguided federal prosecution. The overall sense of this case is that (1) the government sometimes knows when to cut its losses and (2) there are federal judges who will call both balls and strikes against the government.
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