Code 701 - Get Out Of Jail Free After 60 Days
According to a report from The New Orleans Times-Picayune, crime is thriving under a 60-day rule.
The 701 list for 2005 includes Dquane Morgan, 20, booked with the second-degree murder of Ryan Crooks, 17, shot down in a hallway at the St. Bernard public housing complex June 2, 2005.
Three days later, Morgan was arrested. Sixty days after that, he walked free on a 701 release, leaving the case cold and now closed. The reason, prosecutors noted for the record, was that they never received a police report within the 60-day period. That’s the same reason the other seven murder cases from the same seven-month stretch in 2005 tanked.
Jump to July 2006. The two men accused of trying to kill police officer Kevin Thomas in Algiers during a post-Katrina looting spree were released from jail after almost 10 months in jail. Prosecutors say they knew about the case all along but couldn’t make a case given the deficiencies of the post-Katrina era.
But by the time District Attorney Eddie Jordan’s office finally charged Vincent Walker, 44, and Jimil Joyner, 24, with attempted first-degree murder — a week ago — both suspects were on the loose.
The crime situation is getting worse and worse each and every day in New Orleans. It is something that has to be addressed and overcome as soon as possible.
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