The judge keeps the municipality of Susan Hutson into contempt | News

The Supreme Court of the Court of Justice in Orleans Parish despised the sheriff Susan Hutson on Wednesday, and cracked a heated hearing to Hutson's recent alleged failure to transport arrests in court.

The conviction has a prison sentence of up to six months or a fine of up to 500 US dollars. Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier has set the conviction for August 4th and said that Hutson had to comply with the judge's earlier order for weekend and holiday care amplifiers.

Hutson left the court without asking questions from reporters.

Flemings-Davillier had accused Hutson of ignoring a court order of June 18 to transport arrests in front of the magistrate Court on weekends and public holidays. At the almost two -hour hearing on Wednesday, it was accompanied by six other judges. Flemings-Davillier said her arrangement was a participation of the court.

Her order in the last month, which came into force on Saturday, July 12th, came after Hutson had already rejected “numerous” transport requests from the court, wrote Flemings-Davillier. Hutson could not adhere to the command by refusing to transport arrests on July 12th and 13th, the judge on July 12th and 13th.

The magistrate Court operated seven days a week before the Covid 19 pandemic.

In a letter dated July 11, Hutson offered to hold a weekend and Holiday Court meetings at the prison that has two court halls on the first floor.

“In view of the existing challenges for opso, our personal court halls in OJC and the earlier success of virtual hearings, we believe that the continued use of these (alternatives), especially on weekends and public holidays, remains the most responsible course under the current conditions,” Hutson wrote in the two -page letter.

An opso -paralegal tried to keep this letter together with an application from Hutson on the court decision, on Monday before the conviction procedure was ordered. However, an employee of the penalty district court said that the office could not accept the document, since it contained a technical error according to the operation.

“This solution would guarantee personal legal proceedings and at the same time alleviate the burdens for personnel and security loads,” said Hutson. It is unclear whether the court answered this offer.

In a statement on Tuesday, Hutson said that the agency does not have the money or the staff in order to satisfy the court's inquiries.

The work would require at least 12 deputies per day and the agency's annual budget would increase by over 357,000 US dollars, said Hutson, although it did not list these expenses.

“We want to be clear: the problem is not a question of willingness; it is a question of operational feasibility,” said Hutson on Tuesday.

The daily staff would include three MPs assigned to the security of the courtroom, four MPs for the establishment of security, two MPs for the transport of occupants and two MPs who were assigned to the temporary stop area, plus a superior.

Louisiana's law for “constructive contempt” covers clerk, sheriffs and others who have been accused of supporting the court in the “administration of the judiciary”. Those who are guilty of “willing neglect or violation of the obligation” could be subject to the law of a prison sentence.

The last round in turbulent two months for Hutson.

After the escape on May 16, of 10 prison ports, one of which remains on the run, serious concerns about Hutson's political future were expressed.

She moved five challengers into a second term for her re -election.

A leading candidate, former police officer of New Orleans, Michelle Woodfork, who held a short time as a superintendent of the department, has collected more than 190,000 US dollars, of which she still has $ 128,000, which she still has on hand, as campaign financing reports.

Hutson announced last week that she would stay in the race after susing her campaign shortly after May Jailbreak. From Monday, her resting campaign had only 715 US dollars in the bank, as recorded.