"But according to an investigative report from ProPublica, judges on Louisiana’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal secretly decided not to review petitions that were not written by lawyers—and instead directed staff director Jerrold Peterson to send out cut-and-pasted denials to at least 5,000 petitions that no judge ever read.
It went on for more than a dozen years and generated at least $1.7 million in filing fees for petitions the court did not review, until Mr. Peterson exposed the scheme in a suicide note in 2007."
https://eji.org/news/louisiana-judges-refused-to-review-petitions-from-thousands-of-incarcerated-people/
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