Orleans Crime Watchdog ask unusual acquittal rate in judge Nandi Campbells courtroom

New Orleans (WVUE) – A crime guard says that he is alerted about the number of “non -guilty” judgments that come from a judge of the criminal defense judge in Orleans of the community in Orleans.

“The accused's right to a fair procedure is the same right as the public prosecutor's office on a fair procedure,” said Rafael Goyeneche, President of the Metropolitan Crime Commission. “These figures found out. That's why we published a second report on it.”

According to Goyeneche, judges Nandi Campbell show a long -time lawyer of New Orleans who took over the bank bank in January 2021 – their files of crimes faster than any other in Tulane and Broad.

The MCC examined 353 legal proceedings in 12 sections of the criminal court over a period of three years. The data show that accused in Campbell's courtroom often refrains from the right to a legal proceedings and decide on banking tests – in which the result is decided exclusively by the judge.

Goyeneche says that Campbell most often does not guilty in these legal proceedings, with a higher sentence than most other judges in the building.

“The way it was very efficient,” said Goyeneche, “she is an extreme outlier in relation to the results of judge procedures.”

MCC data show that Campbell from 2022-24 37 of 47 defendants in bank tests (79 percent) was not guilty.

Juries in their courtroom in the same period did not find a little more than half of the accused, 14 judgments from 26 attempts.

In violent crimes, the MCC said that Campbell did not find 21 out of 23 defendants.

Campbell led over 47 bank tests from 2022-24. Judge Leon Roche, a former defender of New Orleans, who started on Bank I. Bench in October 2023, held 16 bank trials in 2024 and played 88 percent of the defendants.

The other 10 judges in front of the penalty district had six judges – two per year – in the same three years. These judges had no guilty rates of 58 percent, and juries found that only 43 percent of the accused were not guilty.

“Cases are accidentally assigned to the judges, which should be achieved in the court sections about similar results,” said the MCC in his report. “However, the differences in relation to convictions of the crime condemn the conviction rates before the judges Campbell and Roche indicate different justice standards.”

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The right analyst Joe Raspanti says that other judges do not work as efficiently as Campbell.

“She is known as a very hard -working judge in the building,” said Raspanti. “You can see that because she moves your cases.”

According to the Louisiana law, the accused can decide whether to take a judge or a jury to court. Goyeneche says he would like to see that Louisiana agrees with the majority of the states and the Federal Court to demand that defense and law enforcement have to agree to legal proceedings.

“This does not only change the law because of it,” said Goyeneche. “Thirty other states have realized that this is a problem.”

But Raspanti fears that the prosecutors could use a change in the system.

“For example, in a case that does not hang so much on the facts of the case, but a legal argument that can sometimes be above the location where the jury can understand. Then it should be in front of a judge,” said Raspanti.

While the MCC found that Campbell owes no more guilty than any other judge in front of the municipality of Orleans, Goyeneche says that Campbell pursues the law.

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