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Caddo Parish held its regularly-scheduled election for sheriff in 2023 as part of the 2023 Louisiana elections. Incumbent Republican Steve Prator retired, leaving an open seat. In the first round, held on October 14, Republican John Nickelson and Democrat Henry L. Whitehorn, Sr. were the highest-placing candidates, advancing to a November 18 ...
December 5, 2023 at 4:43 PM. Retired Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Joseph Bleich has made a ruling in the lawsuit over the contested election results for Caddo Parish Sheriff. On Dec. 5, Bleich ...
Nickelson asked the Caddo District Court to declare a victor or order a new election. Bleich asked Nickelson on Nov. 30 to provide a brief for the petition and for it to be filed by noon Dec. 2.
Larry Jefferson: [47] First African American male elected as a Judge of the Monroe City Court (1990) [ Ouachita Parish, Louisiana] J. Edward "Eddie" Hines, Jr.: [27] [28] First African American male to serve as an Assistant District Attorney of Rapides Parish, Louisiana (1979) Louis Berry: [48] First African American male lawyer in Alexandria ...
A divided state appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling ordering a new election for a Louisiana sheriff's race that was decided by a single vote. In a 3-2 ruling, the Second Circuit Court of ...
The Shreve Memorial Library in Shreveport located downtown in the former US post office and courthouse. Caddo Parish (French: Paroisse de Caddo) (/ ˈ k æ d oʊ /) is a parish located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 237,848. [1]
Whitehorn is the first Black man to be elected as Caddo Parish Sheriff. Who is the new command staff? Local businesses donated new collars and badges to Caddo Parish Sheriff K-9s on Wednesday ...
The prosecution of Rodricus Crawford in Caddo Parish, Louisiana in 2013, attracted national media attention. Crawford, a black man, was convicted and sentenced to death that year for suffocating his one-year-old son. [2] His death sentence was seen as part of a pattern in the parish, which has the highest rate of death penalty sentencing in the ...