Through a combination of unforeseen circumstances, the second year of the Cricket Club was very nearly the last year, the incredible success of the first year with the performance of the Temptations and the Four Tops. We realized we would have to follow it up with another strong show. Ultimately, we decided to go with five (5) big acts from the sixties – The Teenagers, The Crystals, The Spinners, Lou Christie, and Lesley Gore. The show got off to a great start. The Teenagers

As a freshman at LSU Law school, I remember taking Criminal Law with a nice, elderly professor named Dale Bennett. It was one of the few classes during the first year that I always looked forward to attending. Somewhere near the middle of the semester, we studied homicide. For ease of explanation, homicides were basically broken down into three categories – 1) murder, 2) manslaughter, and 3) justifiable homicide. Justifiable homicide caught my attention because I could rememb

Last night, I was watching an episode of Superman and Lois on HBO Max. Not surprisingly, an evildoer was using kryptonite to try to kill superman. Suddenly, I remembered the time in 2000, while I owned Grant Street Dance Hall when I received a call from a local radio station. They wanted to co-promote a show with me at Grant Street. The band that they wanted to promote the show for was 3 Doors Down, from Biloxi, Mississippi area. The song Kryptonite was breaking big on the ra

As a young boy growing up in DeQuincy, my grandmother was my rock, I could always count on her to point me in the right direction. When she told me to do this or not do that, she was always correct. Except once. And even then, at the time, she told me that she was probably right. But things change. The bit of advice in question is when I was a young boy and she told me to always trust the police. Don’t get me wrong, I had several close friends who are police officers. Stand u

As a young child, I sometimes got upset when things were beyond my reach. My grandmother, who was my rock, would often tell me, “Don’t worry, baby, even a blind hog will find an acorn sometimes.” I now realize that these words were meant to encourage me to keep trying and not give up. In the practice of criminal law, it is often difficult to win a case. The deck is stacked in favor of the District Attorney. They only have to bring the cases to court that they believe will win

When my grandson was 17, I gave him a Toyota 4-Runner with 200,000 miles that I took as a fee in one of my cases. He promptly blacked out the windows and put in a booming sound system. When I tried to explain that he was going to get tickets, he scoffed, “Everybody knows that you can’t get tickets for blacked-out windows or loud music.” When I asked who had told him that, he replied, “Timmy. He’s 18.” “18-year-old knows more about the law than a lawyer does?” I asked. “That’s

The office of the District Attorney for the 15th Judicial District offers a diversionary program called pretrial intervention. If someone is arrested, there is a good chance that they will receive a letter from the District Attorney’s Office offering to let them sign up for the program. Unless the District Attorney’s Office changes their letter, it will even tell them that they do not need an attorney to sign up for the program. The pretrial intervention program is good for s

Suppose that you have been arrested and charged with committing a serious crime. Does it really matter if you hire an attorney with as little as five- or ten years’ experience or if you hire an attorney with over forty (40) years of handling complicated criminal cases? Or maybe, you should let your friend or cousin handle your serious criminal charge, even though he has only been practicing law for a few years and his practice consists of handling real estate loan closings. I

Over the many years that I have been practicing criminal defense law, clients or potential clients have repeatedly made the same mistake during our initial consultation. When we first meet, they will tell me that they will receive (fill in the blank) sentences. They are sure of this because their friend was convicted of the same charge they are now facing and that is the sentence that the friend received. What the client does not understand, is that each and every case is dif

About a year and a half ago, I was feeling lonely and decided that I wanted to get a pet. After doing some modest research on the internet, I made up my mind that a Toy Poodle would be the right pet for me. My research prepared me for two things. Toy poodles have separation anxiety. However, my granddaughter was willing to help when I had to be gone so I knew that would work out fine. The other warning was that the poodle would want to be the ‘alpha’ of the household. Foolish