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Facing South (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
New Orleans City Business reports that New Orleans District Attorney Keva Landrum-Johnson is filling up Louisiana’s prisons with a new policy charging minor marijuana offenders with felonies if they have prior convictions. Landrum-Johnson's predecessors routinely exercised their discretion to treat such offenses as misdemeanors, but Landrum-Johnson has reversed that policy, racking up felony prosecutions...
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MOLDY CITY (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Contrary to somebody's trollish comment , this was not an attempt to "trash Keva." However, an election is coming up. Unless you believe that this City Business report was totally without merit, you might want to ask the D.A. candidates their opinions about felony prosecutions for marijuana possession. We've got a few weeks to come up with wording for the question that doesn't "trash Keva." I know,...
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Windypundit (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Reason's Jacob Sullum points us to the story of New Orleans District Attorney Keva Landrum-Johnson's new policy of inflating her felony prosecution statistics by charging minor marijuana offenders with felonies. Lousiana law allows second and following offenses to be charged as felonies, but hardly anyone ever did it before. In the comments section, Andrew quotes from a DEA webpage: There is a myth...
