Posted on 12/29/2024 1:20:09 PM PST by TigerClaws
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A New Orleans judge has made the unusual decision to allow a woman accused of murdering a man on Bourbon Street last summer to await trial at home in Mississippi, court records show.
Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge Nandi Campbell on Dec. 18 granted permission for accused killer Mia Lindsey to leave Louisiana and stay on “24/7 home incarceration” at her residence in Columbia, Miss., while awaiting trial in New Orleans, records show.
The judge stipulated that Lindsey must return to her New Orleans courtroom for a Jan. 22 hearing on motions in her case, and that she must hire a private attorney upon her release from custody.
It is unclear whether Lindsey bonded out in time to enjoy Christmas at her home, but online records show she no longer was housed at the Orleans Justice Center jail on Saturday (Dec. 28).
Lindsey, 22, was indicted in October by an Orleans Parish grand jury on charges of second-degree murder and obstruction of justice. Campbell set her bond at $525,000 at the Dec. 18 hearing. Her attorney has filed court notice of a “possible justification defense.”
Lindsey is accused of firing gunshots in the 600 block of Bourbon Street around 4:07 a.m. on June 22, one of which struck 39-year-old bystander Christopher Oatts Jr. in the head, killing the father of two from Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Oatts, a warehouse manager for SeaWorld in Orlando, was making a weekend tourist visit to New Orleans with siblings and cousins when he was killed.
New Orleans police said Lindsey fled the scene of the fatal Bourbon Street shooting in June and was tracked down and arrested two days later in Columbia, Miss., through a joint operation involving the NOPD, Louisiana State Police, the FBI New Orleans violent crime task force, Columbia (Miss.) Police and the Marion County (Miss.) Sheriff’s Office.
Chocolate city judge doing what they do in chocolate city.
No reason given for why the judge decided this...
Well bribed, black female DEMONCRAP judge....
The New Orleans jail can’t afford a Cajun Chef, what else could the judge do?
“ Black female judge.”
Black suspect, too.
Sistuhs, obviously.
ZERO IMPROVEMENTS THERE SINCE KATRINA
How’s she going to prepare a defense while living out of town?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.