The Gambit Interview: Leon Cannizzaro 

Clancy DuBos and Kevin Allman talk to Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, whose office is struggling with a history of not turning over "Brady material" to defense lawyers — a matter that's reached the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court

The day after Leon Cannizzaro was elected district attorney in Orleans Parish, two ranking prosecutors from the office showed up at his home with some bad news: Attorneys for John Thompson, who was convicted of armed robbery and murder (in separate…

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