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Another regurgitated headline of an employee from a Public Defender's Office in New Orleans being accused of providing a cellular telephone to a client awaiting trial for murder. A former employee with the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Defender?s Office was arrested Friday for allegedly providing a cell phone to a first-degree murder suspect awaiting trial in Parish Prison.Samantha M. Moore, 40, 622 S. 14th St., Port Allen, gave Derrick Williams a cell phone during one of eight visits with him at the jail between Aug. 4 and Aug. 22, an arrest warrant says.East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff?s deputies working at the prison found the phone Aug. 24 in a cell, the warrant says. During the deputies? investigation, the phone was tied to both Moore and Williams...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tales of a Public Defender Investigator on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).