The trial for the remaining defendant in the Linda Frickey is now under way.
According to our partners at NOLA.com, the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office rejected a plea deal proposal pitched by the attorney's for the defendant, John Honoré. That leads some legal analysts to believe the case against Honoré, 18, could be open and shut.
"Three of his former codefendants have pled guilty and, no doubt, will testify against him," Loyola Law Professor, Dane Ciolino, said.
Ciolino says that given the nature of the evidence, which includes video of the crime that led to Frickey's death, he can't see a path forward for the defense other than to follow the process to its obvious and applicable end.
“I can’t really imagine what the defense is going to be to this, but given he was offered no deal, it’s not surprising that he is going to take the matter to trial and hope for the best," Ciolino said.
What influences the district attorney to offer or withhold an offer for a deal? Ciolino says that could vary case by case and on the district attorney.
“Typically, it matters a great deal, and, here it’s fairly clear that Jason Williams’s office is talking actively with the family and taking their recommendations," Ciolino said. “They were pleased with the guilty pleas of the other three codefendants and nobody seemed interested in giving a deal to the most culpable of these defendants and that’s why the trial is starting.”
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