Harry Connick Sr., a long-serving district attorney in New Orleans whose office gained national notoriety for prosecutorial overreach that eventually resulted in many reversed convictions, died on Thursday at his home in New Orleans. He was 97.
Justice Ginsburg found that Mr. Connick's subordinates systematically hid evidence that could aid the defense, in violation of the Constitution. Mr. Connick, she said, had created a tinderbox in Orleans Parish in which violations of the defendant's right to be given evidence were nigh inevitable.
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