Harry Connick Sr., Longtime New Orleans District Attorney, Dies at 97

[ad_1] Connick remained undefeated and retired in 2003. But he was later dogged by questions about whether his office withheld evidence favoring the defendants. The issue came to the fore with a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a lawsuit brought by John Thompson, who was exonerated after 14 years on Louisiana’s death row for … Read more