Jillian Kramer
Criminal Justice Reporter| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Reporter for the Times-Picayune | @NOLAnews // Also, freelance journalist for the New York Times, National Geographic, and more.
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2 days ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer
An Orleans Parish Criminal District Court judge quietly stepped away from the bench last month, prompting the Louisiana Supreme Court to install a temporary replacement. Retired Judge Calvin Johnson began presiding over Judge Darryl Derbigny’s courtroom on May 27, according to the court order appointing Johnson as a pro tempore judge, and will serve until June 29. Derbigny has not publicly explained his absence.
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2 weeks ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer
Louisiana State Police were searching Sunday afternoon for a suspect they claim led troopers on a vehicle chase, then fled in a residential area of Algiers. State Police offered few details about the chase, which appeared to end in the 900 block of Verret Street in Algiers. At least seven State Police units were on scene just before 1 p.m. Sunday. A vehicle pursuit "led to a foot pursuit and search of [a] subject that fled," said State Police spokesperson Sgt. Katherine Stegall.
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3 weeks ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer
Just days before they were set to stand trial, three of the four teenagers charged in the late-night carjacking of Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams nearly two years ago pleaded guilty as charged to armed robbery charges in Criminal District Court on Friday. Santana “Tink” Gilmore and cousins Amajha “Cheewee” Curtis and Dijohn Curtis originally pleaded not guilty in the Oct. 16, 2023, robbery outside the district attorney’s Lower Garden District home.
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1 month ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer |Missy Wilkinson |John Simerman
Three of the 10 men who joined in a brazen jailbreak Friday morning in New Orleans sat inside the lockup for nearly two years or longer before their run for freedom, records show, a duration that is common in Orleans Parish, where a spotlight now hovers over Sheriff Susan Hutson and an understaffed jail stretched to capacity.
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1 month ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer
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