would his potential case have in either New Orleans or in Houston?
In New Orleans, the highest priority has to be cases of serious felonies about to reach the 45-day limit on bond obligations after arrests. Hundreds of accused hardened criminals may be about to go free, and any administrator who would go after Jamal now needs immediate psychiatric help:
From
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html :
'New Orleans criminal justice officials cringed Wednesday at another disaster evolving in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: the possible long-term collapse of the citys criminal justice system. With the flooding of the police departments evidence and property room in the basement of police headquarters, evidence and records in hundreds of criminal cases appeared to be irretrievably lost, police spokesman Marlon Defillo said. Evidence in the most serious, pending cases, from murder to rape to robbery, was housed in the basement, Defillo said. We lost thousands of documents and untold evidence, Defillo said. We lost everything.
The floodwaters in the basement of criminal court at Tulane Avenue and Broad Street also inundated old evidence in thousands of old cases under appeal. The lost evidence could reopen cases that otherwise had little chance of getting back into trial court. Were in serious trouble, Defillo said....
By law, suspects must be tried within 30 days of a misdemeanor arrest and within 45 days of a felony arrest or they are automatically released from any bond obligation.'
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