Sassone should be investigated

Fair is fair. After all, folks often call for Judge Charles Elloie in New Orleans to be tossed off the bench. Elloie's known for reducing bonds on suspects, only to have them commit more crimes while on bail, and most recently, his unnecessary trip to Jaimaca for a bar association seminar.

Looks like someone should be asking some serious questions about Martha Sassone as well:

Rapper's reprieve mystifies top cop

On June 5, as a Gretna police officer was driving Corey "C-Murder" Miller to jail for violating the rules of his house arrest, Police Chief Arthur Lawson said his officer got a phone call from the judge in Miller's murder case ordering that the rapper be returned home.

While 24th Judicial District Court Judge Martha Sassone had the authority to intervene, it was an unusual action by a judge, the police chief said. In the more than six years that the Gretna Police Department has run the home-incarceration program in Jefferson Parish, "that certainly was a first for us," he said Thursday.

Why is Sassone giving a suspected murderer special privileges? Inquiring minds want to know.

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