East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore
East Baton Rouge residents will not have to worry about serving jury duty until at least June after a case out of Shreveport found young adults were not being summoned for jury duty. EBR District Attorney Hillar Moore says a computer system glitch prevented people under age 26 from being summoned as potential jurors.
“To my knowledge this is the first time this has happened, obviously computers not talking to the other or not accepting new information or kicking the new information out for some reason that’s beyond me,” said Moore.
The problem was uncovered during jury selection for the capital murder trial of Grover Cannon, who is accused of killing Shreveport police officer Thomas LaValley in 2015. The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled jury selection for that case must start over and other jury trials are delayed.
“The selection of people has to be across the board, has to be even,” said Moore.
The jury service computer glitch means Cannon’s trial and other jury trials will have to delayed. Moore says it’s obviously a set back.
“It was not anyone’s intentional act or fault, just one of those things that happened unfortunately,” said Moore.
(photo: Hillar Moore)
