The chief judge of the district court of the parish criminals of Orleans held Susan Hutson on Wednesday in court, capping a stormy hearing on the recent presumed incapacity of Hutson to transport the decisions of the judgments before the prison court.
The conviction is trained up to six months’ imprisonment or a fine of up to $ 500. Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier condemned the conviction for August 4 and declared that Hutson had to comply with the previous ordinance of the judge for the weekend and the transportation of the holidays until then.
Hutson left the court without responding to journalists.
Flemings-Davillier had accused Hutson of having ignored an order of the court of June 18 to transport orders to the district court on weekends and holidays. At the hearing almost two hours on Wednesday, she was joined by six other judges. Flemings-Davillier said his order was a court detention.
His ordinance last month, which entered into force on Saturday July 12, intervened after Hutson had already refused “numerous” requests for the transport of the court, wrote Flemings-Davillier. Hutson failed to comply with the order by refusing to transport orders on July 12 and 13, wrote the judge.
Before the Pandemic of COVID-19, the court of first instance operated seven days a week.
In a letter of July 11, Hutson proposed to hold weekend and festival court sessions instead in prison, which has two hearing rooms on the first floor.
“Given the existing challenges for the OPSO, our OJC hearing rooms in person and the past success of virtual hearings, we believe that the continuous use of these (alternatives), in particular the weekend and the holidays, remains the most responsible course under current conditions,” Hutson wrote in the two-page letter.
A parajurist of the OPSO attempted to submit this letter, as well as a request from Hutson to maintain the court order, Monday before the order of procedures for contempt. But a clerk with the criminal district court said that the office could not accept the document because it contained a technical error, according to OPSO.
“This solution would ensure legal proceedings in person while attenuating staff and security charges,” said Hutson. It is not known if the court responded to this offer.
Hutson said in a statement on Tuesday that the agency did not have the money or the staff to respond to the requests of the court.
The work would require the services of at least 12 deputies per day and increase the agency’s annual budget by more than $ 357,000, said Hutson, although it has not detailed these expenses.
“We want to be clear: the question is not a question of will; it is a question of operational feasibility,” said Hutson on Tuesday.
Daily staff would include three deputies assigned to the safety of the courtroom, four deputies for building safety, two deputies to transport prisoners and two deputies assigned to the temporary detention area, plus a supervisor.
The law of Louisiana around “constructive contempt” covers the court clerks, the sheriffs and other accused of having helped the court to the “administration of justice”. Persons guilty of “negligence or deliberate violation” could be subject to prison terms, according to law.
The last round in a two -month tumultuous for Hutson.
After the May 16 flight of 10 prison detainees, one of which remains on the run, serious concerns were raised about the political future of Hutson.
She attracted five challengers to her re -election to a second term.
A leading candidate, the former police officer of New Orleans, Michelle Woodfork, who organized a brief passage as a superintendent of the department, collected more than $ 190,000, including around $ 128,000, which she still has in hand, according to campaign financing reports.
Hutson announced last week that she would stay in the race after suspending her campaign shortly after the May Jailbreak. On Monday, his dormant campaign had only $ 715 in the bank, according to files.
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