Potential jurors asked if they can separate Danziger Bridge case from post-Katrina killing

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune

As jury selection got underway in the retrial of ex-New Orleans police officer David Warren, who faces civil rights charges in the shooting death of Henry Glover, a federal judge asked if the roughly 50 residents who had reported for duty could separate the Danziger Bridge case from the matter before them.

The police misconduct in the case of Glover, whose remains were found in a burned out car on the Algiers levee, has nothing to do with the other notorious post-Hurricane Katrina case, which has been the subject of intense media attention lately.

"Some have may have heard of prosecution about Danziger Bridge," U.S. District Judge Lance Africk said shortly after the first batch of potential jurors were sworn in. "Let me advise you, this is not the Danziger Bridge case and has nothing to do with it. Any other cases including allegations of police misconduct that you may be aware of should not play any part in arriving at a decision about this case."

Africk also asked potential jurors to remember that, although conditions following Hurricane Katrina were indeed chaotic, "there was no such thing as martial law declared," in New Orleans in the days and weeks after the storm.

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