May 27 has been designated the resentencing date for Brian Verret, convicted last June on four counts of negligent homicide in connection with a high-speed wreck on Ambassador Caffery Parkway in September 2006. Verret, 24, is currently serving a four-year sentence in the St. Martin Parish Jail. Last week, however, the Third Circuit Court of Appeal, while affirming his conviction, threw out the sentence on a technicality. The INDsider broke that story; read it here .
A spokesman for Lafayette District Attorney Mike Harson’s office, meanwhile, tells The Daily Advertiser he doesn’t expect the new sentence to vary in any way from the original sentence handed out by state District Court Judge Marilyn Castle.
... written by Larry Aucoin , May 15, 2009 - 06:08 pm
4 years, one year for each life he willfully took while committing an act of willful diobiedence and disregard for the law, not to mention the lives of 4 innocent people. What do the surviving family members of these 4 innocent people get in return-----never having their lives with their children, having to relive the nightmare over and over again every time they cross the Amb. Caffery bridge. He took the lives of 4 preple because he wanted to have reckless and unlawful FUN, the sentence is not nearly enough. The bible says, an eye for and eye, a life for a life. In this case 4 times over.
... written by Citizen , May 17, 2009 - 07:38 am
because he wanted to have reckless and unlawful FUN... was it even that? I think it was pure arrogance, a case of my *(&() is bigger than your )*&()_. Isn't that always the case with these idiots who drive crotch rockets? In fact it's also the case with people who feel like they need a monster truck to drive around lafayette endangering the lives of everyone around them. Idiots who express themselves through their vehicles need to grow up and find a hobby that doesn't endanger the lives of intelligent people around them.
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David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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