Post: Ode to Judge Canaday

Posted by Hardy Parkerson, J.D. - Lake Charles, LA on 3/17/09

There once was a judge named Canaday,
Who when on the bench didn't play;
He set such high bail,
The defendants rotted in jail.
"He's just like Minaldi was," they'd say.

[Judge Minaldi was a state district
judge who was known for setting high
bail bonds; she later was appointed by
Presient George W. Bush as a Federal
judge, an office she now holds in
Louisiana. Further, in Louisiana the
state district judges who fix the amount
of bail bonds get a percentage of the
money paid to a proessional bail bondsman
for a bail bond; so, naturally, the higher
that the bonds are set, the more money the
judges who set the amounts of the bail
bonds get. In my opinion, such a practice
is a financial "conflict of interest" and
the Louisiana law allowing this is a terrible
one; but it's the law. There is more to it
all than this, but this is something to
think about.]

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Ode to Judge Canaday, 3/17/09, by Hardy Parkerson, J.D. - Lake Charles, LA.