{"id":911913,"date":"2026-07-04T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/911913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:57:27","slug":"liz-murrill-files-second-emergency-supreme-court-request-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/911913\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Murrill files second emergency Supreme Court request | Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has filed a second emergency request<\/a> to the Louisiana Supreme Court, asking them to recall her arrest warrant after the high court already issued a stay over her recent indictment.<\/p>\n

An Orleans Parish grand jury indicted Murrill on Thursday,<\/a> charging her with 16 felony counts of malfeasance in office and intimidation. Criminal District Judge Leon Roche issued an alias capias warrant for her arrest. Murrill immediately asked the state\u2019s high court to weigh in, who granted a stay of the indictment<\/a> early Friday morning.<\/p>\n

But by Friday evening, Murrill said that the special prosecutor handling her case, former New Orleans Criminal Court judge Laurie White,<\/a> had refused to recall her arrest warrant and $400,000 bond.<\/p>\n

An attorney for Murrill, Laura Cannizzaro Rodrigue, wrote in the emergency filing Friday night to the Supreme Court that they had sought to have Murrill\u2019s warrant recalled in district court. She quoted a response from White to two of Murrill\u2019s attorneys, Kyle Schonekas and Blake Arcuri.<\/p>\n

\u201cCounsel sought consent from Special Prosecutor Laurie White, who responded \u2018Kyle, Blake, I also like the tone of the letter. Good job Blake, you can do a letter!\u2019\u201d according to the filing.<\/p>\n

White then added, \u201cI object to the removal of the capias (warrant), as the accused should not get any more preferential treatment than any other criminally charged defendant,\u201d according to the filing from Murrill\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n

White also accused Murrill\u2019s team of asking the Supreme Court \u201cto micromanage this case differently than a regular pending matter,\u201d according to the filing.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaking of conflicts, is the State of Louisiana paying for the defense of the accused using taxpayer money??!\u201d White added, the filing says.<\/p>\n

While the Louisiana Supreme Court\u2019s order staying Murrill\u2019s indictment noted several potential flaws<\/a> with the grand jury process, the order did not specifically address the warrant.<\/p>\n

Rodrigue asked in the emergency filing that the high court order the capias warrant\u2019s recall. She also asked the court to order the Orleans Parish Sheriff to remove it from law enforcement databases.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear that this Court\u2019s stay of criminal proceedings intended to encompass \u2014 if not exclusively target \u2014 the execution of an arrest warrant of the Louisiana Attorney General in a matter which the Court deemed her \u2018likely to succeed on the merits of a motion to quash this indictment on either a legal basis or due to apparent procedural irregularities,\u2019\u201d Rodrigue wrote.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story, check back later for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has filed a second emergency request to the Louisiana Supreme Court, asking them…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":911914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[180671,17257,363,21461,50,67,132,68,60834],"class_list":["post-911913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-grand-jury","tag-indictment","tag-liz-murrill","tag-new-orleans","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-warrant"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116861589681050523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}