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What else should I know about Jefferson Parish and its District Attorney’s office?

         
In 2003 two Jefferson Parish prosecutors got caught wearing ties in court with a noose and a grim reaper painted on them.  Another prosecutor’s wife had made them as presents.
 

 
         
The defendant was a black teenager, just 16 when the crime occurred.  The prosecutor’s want the death penalty.
 
 
His father grew up in Mississippi in the ’50’s.  He doesn’t think much has changed.