The 2025 Legislative session is in the books, and Leaders for a Better Louisiana Chief Policy Officer Barry Erwin calls it a significant session. Erwin says the highlight is legal changes to how car crashes are handled in court, hoping it will bring down insurance rates.
Governor Landry is calling the legislative session as a huge success. In a video posted to social media immediately after the session adjourned sine die, Landry said the legislature accomplished a lot in just a couple of months.
Cut 11 (13) “…not against you.”
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Attorney General Liz Murrill is hailing the passage of House Bill 675. That’s the bill by Slidell Republican Brian Glorioso that speeds up the post-conviction relief process in which inmates seek to have their sentences shortened or overturned. While its main focus is on death penalty cases, Murrill says Glorioso’s bill also ends the process of drawing out the appeals process for years and even decades.
Cut 8 (09) “…that from happening.”
In Winn Parish, the District Attorney there has dismissed the case against a teenager accused of killing his father in April of 2023, citing a lack of evidence. 51-year-old Chad Camp was shot to death, his then 17 year old son Andrew was arrested and charged with manslaughter. Winn Parish DA Chris Nevils dismissed that case earlier this week, but we’re told he will move forward with the case against Jessica Shea, who was also arrested in the case. She’s charged with obstruction of justice and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.