Posted on 10/12/2006 2:00:48 PM PDT by SmithL
New Orleans -- A judge who earlier drew a reprimand for expunging convicts' records was suspended after complaints that he set bonds too low for suspects in violent crimes, the state's high court said Thursday.
The court said it found probable violations of the state's constitution and judicial conduct code, and it faulted Judge Charles Elloie for continuing to set low bonds even after "heightened scrutiny and intense media attention."
A study commissioned by a New Orleans judicial watchdog group found last year that Elloie was responsible for 56 percent of all defendants who walked out of Orleans Parish Prison because a judge had changed their original magistrate bond.
The office of special counsel to the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana also found that Elloie wrongfully granted 4,350 paroles, including many for domestic violence cases in which he had no parole authority.
Elloie's decisions have drawn increasing attention in New Orleans in recent months as the murder rate has risen. Police attributed much of the rise to drug and turf wars and noted that many of the suspects and victims had previous arrests.
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There go the judge!
Ah, they'll just elect him to the legislature next year.
He needs Numerous Nawlin's Nuisance Noogies to the Nth Degree with no chance for a parole!
Legislature hell, Hillary will appoint him to the US Supreme Court in three years.
Since this was a New Orleans judge, I think it's safe to say that the low bails and expungements weren't done for altruistic reasons.
This judge got paid off - very well!
Dang -- I used to think he was just stupid. He signed some sort of bail forms with disappearing ink back in the mid-1990's...dang, I wish I could find an internet story about it, but it was big news in New Orleans for a few weeks anyway. I'm not that familiar with the criminal justice system so I can't tell you much more than that....
Sounds like Durham, where they handed out blank warrants to the police, to fill out whenever they wanted, for whatever they wanted. And (presumably) took payoffs to get people out of such crimes as rape. (Maybe they were trying that again recentlY? Maybe the lacrosse players should just have payed up?)
And low bonds for violent crimes are notorious in Durham.
Elloie is dangerous not because he's corrupt. But because he likes getting people out of jail, guilty or not.
Go check his freezer!!
Oh -- so then Elloie knowingly signed the forms with disappearing ink? The local news media portrayed him as just an idiot.
Years later he was in an issue of News Of The Weird -- I don't remember what the decision was exactly.
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