Iberia Parish judge Lori Landry has questioned the large number of black Louisianans incarcerated by the district attorney's office
LAFAYETTE, La. - Two state judges will begin hearing arguments this week about whether an African American Iberia Parish judge should be recused from more than 300 criminal cases after she criticized prosecutors for a high rate of incarceration of black Louisianans.
Some of the recusal motions are scheduled to be heard Wednesday by 16th Judicial District Court Judges Anthony Thibodeaux and Lewis Pitman. In the move to remove Landry from her criminal cases, the district attorney's office claims she threatened to stick a pen in the eardrum of a prosecutor and a defense attorney. When the prosecutor asked why the eardrum, Landry, according to the motion, said,"Because, girl, it hurts, but it doesn't kill you. It makes you suffer. See what I'm saying?"
"We know of the trickery and injustice that is happening in the 16th JDC with this very targeted, bullying, and racist tactic to have Judge Landry removed from hearing all criminal cases in the 16th JDC because she does not want to play jump rope or be friends with the DA Office," Robby Carrier-Bethel posted on Facebook."Judge Landry is honorable, and a woman of God that has brought compassion, Integrity and judicial fairness with her to the bench .
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