New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams promised to address the city's history of prosecutorial and police misconduct. But conservative lawmakers have alleged he has over-reached by allowing for hundreds of people to have their convictions voided or sentences revised through post-conviction relief in the past few years.
FILE - New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams talks to the media outside the courthouse at Tulane and Broad streets on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in New Orleans . New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams defended his office’s use of post-conviction relief to void convictions or revise sentences at a press conference on Aug. 19, 2024, in New Orleans , La. FILE - New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams talks to the media outside the courthouse at Tulane and Broad streets on Monday, Aug.
Williams has agreed to appear before a state senate committee on Sept. 5 over his office’s use of post-conviction relief.Oyster shell recycling program expands from New Orleans to Baton Rouge Conservative lawmakers have expressed concern that Williams’ office has been acting without transparency. Attorney General Liz Murrill said she is taking a “close look” at these cases and warned that convictions should not be changed “simply because the district attorney has a difference of opinion” from the courts and Legislature.
Williams has said there has been no misconduct in his office’s use of post-conviction relief and that he is simply following through on his campaign promises. Louisiana has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, locking up 1,067 per 100,000 of the state’s residents, according to a
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