(Via Beats & Rants 2.1.) State District Judge Timothy Ellender, a white judge from the Terrebonne Parish, attended a Halloween party in black-face makeup, an Afro, an orange jail jumpsuit, and shackles. A fucking judge!
This case may go to the Louisiana Supreme Court if it is recommended by the state Judiciary Commission; I really hope it does. This kind of shit from a judge—a man whose job it is to put people in jail, mostly for non-violent crime I would bet—is unacceptable.
How can anyone in Ellender's court expect to get a fair trial? And for that matter, assuming they did, one would expect more mistrials declared and more appeals granted, on the mere suspicion of racial bias. That is a disservice to every citizen of Louisiana.