someone had a website critical to a political candidate in winn parish. a candidate took offense and somehow (due to crappy reporting on the town talks part remain unclear) took the website to court. website's isp godaddy.com located in scottsdale, arizona 404'd the doyouknowchris.com site. of course the town talk doesnt bother to clear up whether godaddy.com 404'd the website or if the owner did it themselves.
further, notice how the town talk leaves out all the important information from the story. like on what legal grounds does someone have to order a scottsdale, arizona company into a louisiana court?
this should be stopped and deserves the entire internet communities castigation. if anything the legal manuevers create dangerous precedent.
so wheres rogers?
heres a screen grab of doyouknowchris.com taken from the google cache:
we have linked all the lawyers we could find to their info at the louisiana state bar...david roach does not appear to be a member of the la state bar.
Web site hit for critizing Winn DA candidate
By Jim Leggett
jleggett@thetowntalk.com
(318) 487-6346
The Winn Parish District Attorney's race took a different twist when the political consultant for one candidate went to court to find out who is responsible for a Web site critical of another candidate in the race.
David Roach of Baton Rouge, who represented candidate Herman Castete, went into 8th Judicial District Court (Winn Parish) to seek a temporary restraining order against a Scottsdale, Ariz., firm which he said operates the Web site, www.doyouknowchris.com. The site is critical of Herman Castete, another candidate in the race, Roach said.
"Neither I nor my client, Herman Castete, or any of his supporters, had anything whatsoever to do with this dirty political trick," Roach said.
In a special election, Castete and Neviles, along with John William Maloy and incumbent Marty Sanders, are seeking to fill the district attorney's seat left vacant when former District Attorney Terry Reeves died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in July.
Clerk of Court Donald Kelley issued a summons, which states the Web site must defend itself in 8th Judicial District Court on May 2. The primary election is Saturday, and a runoff, if necessary, is April 29.
Nevils did not wish to comment on the legal action.
Meanwhile, three of the four candidates are pushing their law experience as the top credential that makes them qualified for the seat.
Castete, who has served as chief criminal prosecutor and chief indigent defender and is now city attorney and city prosecutor for Winnfield, said he has "more legal (courtroom) experience in civil, criminal and family law matters than any of my opponents. In addition, I am the only candidate that has tried capital murder cases."
Maloy said the district attorney "should have a broader legal knowledge than just criminal law and procedure" since civil work is half his work.
"My legal knowledge and experience in representing state and local governmental entities has prepared me to address these issues and to provide competent legal advice to the citizens of Winn Parish."
Nevils said he "has more prosecuting experience than all of the other candidates combined because of his previous success in the Baton Rouge District Attorney's office." He added that he "is the only candidate to have successfully prosecuted misdemeanor and felony criminal cases and continued with their appeal through state, federal and U.S. Supreme courts."
He also represented the Police Jury in its lawsuit against the late District Attorney Terry Reeves.
Marty Sanders couldn't be reached for comment.
Originally published March 31, 2006
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Sorry for not doing a story on this one, pal. There were a few technical difficulties.
ReplyDelete1. Nobody tipped me off to the story (that I know of), so I never heard of it.
2. I'm not psychic.
Before poor-mouthing me about not covering a story I knew NOTHING about, maybe you should try- uh, I dunno- TELLING ME NEXT TIME?!
thanks chad but we did send you the town talk link.
ReplyDeleteno ones poor mouthing you we appreciate the hard work you do and have told you so on several occasions.
now that you know about it what are you going to do about it?
Again, I wish to draw attention to certain portion of what I sent you.
ReplyDelete1. Nobody tipped me off to the story (that I know of), so I never heard of it.
I'll repeat the key phrase again and again:
(that I know of), so I never heard of it.
(that I know of), so I never heard of it.
(that I know of), so I never heard of it.
If you tipped me off to it, it was probably one of hundreds of emails I get on a daily basis.
Of course, it's simply not possible that I could have overlooked it or anything, or deleted it with junk mail, now is it?
Now that I know about it, sure I'll consider it, but I don't question what you do/ do not post because it's YOUR blog and you post stuff that is important to YOU- not Chad E. Rogers.
The reverse is true of my site.
Good day.
Chad
hi chad thanks again - if it will make you happy then we will gladly concede that our tip was diverted to dp junk email...
ReplyDeletewe think that we should let you know when we think you are fucking up since we admire you so much however
we noticed just last night that we arent the only ones...oyster has chided you about some fuzzy reporting.
and that brings us to another thing why delink the conservative cajun? nick took up for you in that thread so why the delink? thats not a good way to treat fans...
which brings us to why so many dead links? audrey hudson (and theres a few others) quit blogging in december her blog isnt even in her name anymore why keep a link?
like it or not you are a source of news and you are subject to fair criticism. if your readers see a skewer we should say so..
if you look back at our previous posts the dead pelican they have all been mostly favorable to your endeavor and we are sure that we will post favorably of you again.