05/30/2024
H/T Fox News for a new candidate for our Black Women Abusing Power Tag.
Judge presiding over LSU student’s attack makes unprecedented decision, prompting questions about conflicts [by Chris Eberhart, May 27, 2024], reports:
The Louisiana judge presiding over a high-profile criminal case accusing Black men of raping a White LSU student dismissed a 1972 rape conviction a year after she released a different rape suspect on reduced bail.
District Judge Gail Horne Ray’s decisions, coupled with her son’s serial rape conviction and her potential bias as a lifetime member of the NAACP, has [sic] raised concerns about conflicts of interest.
[VDARE.com emphasis. Significant that Fox News feels able to say this.]
Justice or Judge Judy? “The trial court does not possess inherent authority to ignore proper legal procedures & consider whatever it wants, whenever it wants”
Judge in LSU student’s attack makes unprecedented decision, prompting questions about conflictshttps://t.co/Iz4W7lJ43i
— davd soul (@davdsoul) May 27, 2024
It gets worse.
This month, she dismissed Donald Ray Link’s 1972 conviction for aggravated rape, which hadn’t even been requested by Link’s lawyers.
Instead, she vacated the 50-year-old conviction because the jury was given “improper instructions” during the trial, which she called a “glaring error,” WAFB reported based on court filings.
East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore III has filed a statement saying
the trial court does not possess the inherent authority to ignore proper legal procedures and consider whatever it wants, whenever it wants.
This sounds like the case I discussed in Black Immigrant-Stock Commissar/Judge Abena Darkeh Declares 2nd Amendment Repealed.
Judge Gail Horne Ray’s behavior is particularly sensitive because she is presiding over and explosive rape trial:
…the alleged rape of 19-year-old LSU sophomore Madison Brooks … She was allegedly raped by four suspects — Kaivon Washington, Everett Lee, Casen Carver and Desmond Carter — in their car after a night of drinking.
…After the alleged attack in their car, the suspects reportedly left Brooks, who was stumbling and drunk, on the side of a busy four-lane highway in the middle of the night.
She was hit by a car and died from her injuries.
See also ’Laughing’ suspect in LSU student attack indicted on video recording [by Chris Eberhart, Fox News, January 19, 2024].
Three of the four defendants are black. The defense is alleging consensual sex (which under Louisiana may not be a defense since the poor girl was extremely drunk) and claiming that the case is motivated by racism, since she was white.
Judge Ray has a hot potato. Based on her record, which already qualifies her for the Black Women Abuses Power tag, the prognosis is poor. She should never have been made a judge: she clearly lacks the temperament.
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