The top priority of this District Attorney’s Office is to increase safety in New Orleans for our families. The people of this city can rest assured that the DA’s Office is doing everything possible to ensure that our neighborhoods are safer and that our streets are rid of those looking to cause harm.
Since Day 1, we have been laser-focused on the prosecution of violent crimes like murders, robberies, rapes, and domestic violence; prioritizing the acceptance of felony cases that cause the greatest injury and others that involve victims and survivors. We purposefully convene the New Orleans Grand Jury each week to secure indictments against the most serious offenders. In partnership with the New Orleans Police Department and other law enforcement agencies, we launched our Serial Crimes Initiative to create a concerted effort to target and get ahead of repeat violent crime in our city. And in August 2021, we launched a Cold Case Unit that is purposed around getting murderers off the streets and bringing healing to families by revisiting past data and information and putting fresh eyes on evidence originally found to be part of these cases.
Essential to our mission of increasing safety is having the personnel necessary to do so. We are proud to have raised pay and provided enhanced training for our prosecutors in order to recruit and retain talented attorneys, and to have doubled the number of Victim/Witness Advocates since DA Williams’ inauguration on January 11, 2021.
COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the criminal legal system. With jury trials halted since March 2020, there was a significant backlog of cases awaiting us when we took office. Since then, however, we have aggressively and strategically addressed this backlog by appropriately diverting cases, securing guilty pleas outside of court, dismissing our minor cases, and relentlessly preparing our major cases for trial to ensure that we were ready when courts resumed normal operations.
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Increasing Safety in Neighborhoods
DA’s Office Announces Arraignment of Defendant for Brazen September 2022 Mid-City New Orleans Roadway Shooting
NEW ORLEANS – Yesterday, District Attorney Jason Williams and ProjectNOLA Executive Director Bryan LaGarde stood together to announce the arraignment of a defendant in a brazen Mid-City New Orleans roadway shooting in September 2022. [...]
DA Williams, Prosecutors Secure Guilty As Charged Murder Conviction In 2018 Murder of New Orleans Rapper Theodore “Young Greatness” Jones
Defendant Donald Reaux was found guilty as charged of Second Degree Murder, Obstruction of Justice, and Conspiracy to Commit Obstruction of Justice on charges stemming from his recruiting a 15-year-old and 19-year-old to commit [...]
DA Williams, Prosecutors Secure Guilty As Charged Murder Conviction In 2018 Murder of New Orleans Rapper Theodore “Young Greatness” Jones
Defendant Donald Reaux was found guilty as charged of Second Degree Murder, Obstruction of Justice, and Conspiracy to Commit Obstruction of Justice on charges stemming from his recruiting a 15-year-old and 19-year-old to commit [...]
DA Williams Stands In Support of #WearBlueDay, Raises Awareness for Human Trafficking
NEW ORLEANS – Yesterday, District Attorney Jason Williams and the entire Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office (OPDA) proudly stand in support of #WearBlueDay to combat and bring awareness to Human Trafficking. Hosted each year [...]
District Attorney Williams Heads Into Court To Personally Try 2018 Mardi Gras Day Mass Shooting Double Homicide Case
NEW ORLEANS – This week, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams heads into court alongside Assistant District Attorney Forrest Ladd to try a double homicide case stemming from a shooting that took place on [...]
Congressman Troy Carter, District Attorney Jason Williams Host 1st Annual Computer Giveaway
NEW ORLEANS – In celebration of the holiday season, Congressman Troy Carter and District Attorney Jason Williams hosted their 1st Annual Computer Giveaway on December 24, 2022. The event was held at the Orleans [...]
