New Orleans plans first criminal trials since Katrina

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"Johnson's plan is "extraordinarily optimistic," says Pamela Metzger of the criminal law clinic at Tulane University. She says many of the 6,000 defendants awaiting trial in New Orleans are poor and their right to have a court-appointed lawyer hasn't been met months after their arrest."



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