{"id":2633888,"date":"2026-07-22T20:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecutor-drops-felony-case-against-louisiana-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:16:52","slug":"prosecutor-drops-felony-case-against-louisiana-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecutor-drops-felony-case-against-louisiana-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor drops felony case against Louisiana attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprosecutor-drops-felony-case-against-louisiana-attorney-general%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2633888&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>louisiana&#8217;s special prosecutor dropped criminal charges against Attorney General Liz Murrill after local officials she allegedly threatened urged her to do so. Murrill was facing a 16-count felony indictment for intimidating city officials through letters in May, related to court system reforms she supported. The charges were dismissed after Mayor Helena Moreno, District Attorney Jason Williams, and other officials wrote letters requesting the case&#8217;s dismissal, asserting they were not intimidated. Murrill argued the case never should have started, claiming no crime occurred, and criticized the process as an abuse of the justice system. The dispute arose when new legislation affected court clerk positions, leading Murrill to accuse local officials of seeking to undermine the law by appointing an interim clerk and scheduling an election. Murrill threatened to jail the interim clerk and suggested that the governor could remove officials who opposed her actions. Despite an indictment and a grand jury proceeding, the Louisiana Supreme Court intervened, citing issues with the proceedings, and granted a stay. The case was ultimately dropped, with Murrill emphasizing her intent to continue her efforts despite the setback.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/louisiana\/\">Louisiana <\/a>special prosecutor on Wednesday dropped <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/crime\/\">criminal<\/a> charges against the state\u2019s attorney general after being urged to do so by the local officials she was accused of threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutor Laurie White dismissed charges against Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill after a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-orleans\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"902\">New Orleans<\/a> grand jury handed down a 16-count felony <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/lailluminator.com\/2026\/07\/02\/murrill-indict\/\">indictment<\/a> against her earlier this month following allegations she intimidated Mayor Helena Moreno, District Attorney Jason Williams, retired judge Calvin Johnson, and five City Council members through letters in May. <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4660021\/felony-intimidation-charges-dropped-louisiana-attorney-general-liz-murrill\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Prosecutor drops felony intimidation case against Louisiana attorney general<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4659146\/ex-venezuela-dictator-nicolas-maduro-and-wife-june-2027-drug-trafficking-trial\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Ex-Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and wife scheduled for June 2027 drug trafficking trial<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4658533\/doj-bolster-new-jersey-lawsuit-noncitizen-voter-registrations-discovered\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>DOJ seeks to bolster New Jersey lawsuit after thousands of noncitizen voter registrations discovered<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis case should have NEVER been started because there was NO crime,\u201d Murrill said in a statement. \u201cThis outcome will not deter my efforts to get to the bottom of this. The irresponsible and illegal actions that led to this abuse of the criminal justice system need to never happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White dropped the criminal charges after Moreno and five council members wrote a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.gov\/nola\/media\/Mayor-s-Office\/Executive%20Orders\/Mayor-and-Councilmembers-Letter.pdf\">letter to White<\/a> on Tuesday asking her to drop the charges of intimidation and malfeasance, saying they were \u201cnot intimidated\u201d by Murrill\u2019s actions. Williams and Johnson <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.gov\/nola\/media\/Mayor-s-Office\/Executive%20Orders\/DA-Williams-Letter.pdf\">also wrote<\/a> separate letters, urging White to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/nola.gov\/nola\/media\/Mayor-s-Office\/Executive%20Orders\/Retired-Judge-Calvin-Johnson-s-Letter.pdf\">drop the case<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The debacle began in May, when the state legislature passed a measure to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wwno.org\/politics\/2026-07-22\/charges-against-ag-liz-murrill-dropped-at-request-of-new-orleans-city-officials\">reform the court system<\/a> in changes that were backed by Murrill. The new law eliminated the Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court\u2019s position by consolidating the Orleans Parish civil and criminal court clerks into one position. The law prevented Calvin Duncan, who was easily elected to the criminal court clerk\u2019s post in November, from assuming office in May. Duncan had been attacked by the GOP due to questions about being a murderer. He served roughly three decades at Angola State Penitentiary for a 1981 murder he was later cleared of committing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murrill accused local officials who opposed the law of seeking to circumvent it by appointing an interim clerk, Johnson, and scheduling an election for Nov. 3, in which voters would pick a permanent officeholder, most likely Duncan. Murrill said the combined agencies were under the control of the remaining clerk, Chelsey Richard Napoleon. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She threatened to jail Johnson if he performed any of the clerk\u2019s duties and sent <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28405981-liz-murrill-letter-to-mayor-helena-moreno\/\">individual letters<\/a> on May 13 to Moreno and other New Orleans city officials that suggested Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) had the authority to remove them from office if they continued to oppose the law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A grand jury indicted her on charges of intimidation in July, leading Landry to issue a statement promising to pardon Murrill if she was convicted and warning against the \u201cKangaroo court.\u201d The Louisiana Supreme Court also intervened, putting a stay on the attorney general\u2019s indictment and recalling a warrant for her arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the stay order, the state Supreme Court agreed that the jury proceedings that led to Murrill\u2019s indictment took place under questionable circumstances. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4654714\/what-to-know-tate-brothers-arrested\/\"><strong>WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE TATE BROTHERS ARRESTED IN MIAMI AS UK SEEKS EXTRADITION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBy all public accounts, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court violated express provisions of state law requiring that grand jury returns occur in the public eye, \u2018in open court,\u2019\u201d the order read. \u201dNumerous media outlets have stated that reporters were handcuffed and removed from these otherwise public proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Republican Attorneys General Association also backed Murrill, arguing that she was carrying out her duties through the warning letter, by \u201cissuing a legal opinion and warning public officials about the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charges dropped against Louisiana AG after officials&#8217; plea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2633889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP25288653360185-e1784762741461.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32116,83055,81446,6100,6215],"class_list":["post-2633888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-attorney-general","tag-felony-case","tag-legal-misconduct","tag-louisiana","tag-prosecutor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP25288653360185-e1784762741461.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633892,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633888\/revisions\/2633892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2633889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}