Fourth Judge Avoids Morial DWI Case

The Times-Picayune reports that Judge Robert E. Jones III was the fourth judge on the New Orleans Traffic Court bench to recuse himself from the drunken driving case against Jacques Morial, the brother of New Orleans' former mayor. Judge Jones said he will ask the Louisiana Supreme Court to appoint someone to preside over the case. "Other Traffic Court judges who have backed away from the current case include Judge Dennis Dannel, who relinquished it last fall because of his friendship with the Morial family; Judge Paul Bonin, who presided in Morial's earlier DWI case; and Judge Ronald Sholes, who is close with the BOLD political clan that backed Ray Nagin's run for mayor."

Posted by AJR at April 22, 2003 07:10 AM