SOCL 3371 Lecture : Lecture 22 1
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New orleans cope plead guilty in katrina killings, get lower terms. In a federal courtroom yesterday, kenneth bowen, robert gisevius, robert faulcon, anthony. Villavaso and arthur kaufman, all accused of crimes related to the post-katrina danziger bridge massacre, stood up one-by-one and admitted what they"ve been denying for more than 10 years. A jury found the men guilty in 2011, but two years later u. s. district judge kurt. Engelhardt said misconduct on the part of prosecutors -- "jiggery-pokery" is the word he used yesterday obligated him to give the of cers a new trial. Under the guilty pleas, sentences imposed earlier were cut sharply, in one case from 65 years in prison to 12, in another from 40 years to 10. Two attorneys for the of cers offered apologies, but neither contained any hint of emotion. "each seemed more like a hollow gesture than a sincere expression of contrition," the.
