“In Louisiana, where defendants can spend years in pretrial detention because of court delays, it is not uncommon for an inmate to have served out their sentence — or even served extra time — by the time a judge hands down that sentence.” www.nola.com/news/louisia...

“This is a major victory for accountability — and we hope it is the beginning of the end of the state’s pattern of illegally imprisoning thousands of Louisianans at taxpayer expense,” William Most, one of the attorneys on the case, said in a statement. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

“Democracy only works if state officials are transparent with voters about what they are being asked to vote on. This proposed amendment flunks the basic honesty test,” said William Most, lead attorney on the case. lailluminator.com/2025/02/18/l...

So, years ago, a scrappy young civil rights attorney, William Most (@williammost.bsky.social), was at a party with a bunch of Orleans Public Defenders & overheard that their clients kept getting kidnapped by DOC. He sued the hell out of them again and again for years. That’s how this happened.

“We were extremely disturbed to learn in the course of the child sexual assault case that an NOPD representative did not know of anything that NOPD has done differently to prevent another officer predator like Officer Vicknair,” Most said in an interview.