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Look up Bossier Parish District Attorney online and you get this:

“The Bossier Parish District Attorney is Schuyler Marvin, who has served since January 2003. He oversees the prosecution of criminal cases in Bossier and Webster Parishes. The district attorney plays a crucial role in the local judicial system.”

Likewise, that same Internet says, “The judicial system is responsible for interpreting laws, resolving disputes, and ensuring justice is served” and that it “plays a crucial role in maintaining law and order.”

Given those two noble-sounding definitions, why did Bossier Parish District Attorney Schuyler Marvin terminate an investigation by entering a nolle prosequi (Latin for “to be unwilling to pursue”) in a May 8, 2025, Bossier Parish home invasion case by a prominent Benton businessman, especially since one DA representative indicated there had been similar incidents in the past involving the accused and women?

Max Anthony Sharp, who is an officer in a host of corporations dealing with oil drilling and investments, was initially arrested 18 months ago for the forced entry into a Bossier Parish home which resulted in extensive damage to a doorway to the home.

The unidentified victim claims that prosecutors specifically indicated to her that they would confer with her before taking any final action but that promised consultation never occurred before the prosecution was terminated.

She was also told by a representative of the DA’s office—another prosecutor—sho separately reviewed the matter, that there had been “other incidents” involving Sharp and women but that he “had not gone this far before.”

The victim said she has several questions she would like to have addressed:

• What changed during the approximately 18 months the felony prosecution was pending?
• Who participated in the decision to terminate?
• What reason was documented for the nolle prosequi?
• Were prosecutors’ earlier assessments of the case materially different from the ultimate disposition?
• Did anyone outside the normal prosecutorial process attempt to influence the outcome?

The complainant is seeking independent state and federal reviews of the circumstances surrounding the DA’s decision to terminate the 2025, home invasion.

Bossier and Webster parishes comprise the 26^th Judicial District.

The Bossier Parish case is not the first time that criminal cases have mysteriously disappeared.

In the 3^rd JDC, which is made up of Lincoln and Union parishes, two cases have also found their way into deep, dark holes. First, there was the decision that no one would prosecuted for the 2019 death of Ronald Greene at the hands of several State Troopers and a Union Parish sheriff’s deputy.

Then was the FOOT-DRAGGING, SLOW-WALKING of the prosecution of Abby Sterling, 20, who struck two pedestrians, Hahn Bridges and Jackson Mitcham, both 21. Mitcham later died as a result of his injuries.

Sterling’s blood tests showed her blood alcohol content (BAC) was 0.169, more than twice the limit to be considered intoxicated.

Kinda makes you tend to re-think those principled definitions of justice and fairness and “equal” treatment.

Does anyone have the right to do this to your home and walk away?

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You’d have to believe in the Easter Bunny, too,

to believe this guy is presidential timber

John Kennedy said over the weekend he might consider running for president in 2028, when he will be 76 years old.

Just what we need–another old man full of platitudes and homilies that sound like some weird combination of Jedd Clampett and Forhorn Leghorn.

He said he would consider running if he no longer felt he was effective in the Senate. Guess he’s running for sure, then, ’cause he ain’t nearly as “effective” as he thinks he is other than serving as just another lap dog for the PINC (Pedophile in Chief).

Want me to vote to confirm an absolute idiot and former idiot as Secretary of Health? Done.

Want me to consider an accused sex abuser for Supreme Court? No problem.

How about Kristi Noem for Homeland Security Secretary? Why not?

Want my vote confirm Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche (in case Pam doesn’t work out)? Count me in.

Oh, hell, let’s just cut to the chase. Trump has nominated 22 people for cabinet positions this term. Kennedy voted in favor on every. single. one.

Not one nay vote. That should tell you just how far he is up Donald’s diapered derrière.

One thing you can say about our PINC (Pedo-in-Chief) Donald Trump is that he puts his bigotry out there for all to see and his reaction to the rape allegations at Cornell University is a stark reminder that he is, first and foremost, a racist disgrace.

He wasted no time Friday in publicly proclaiming his sympathy for the seven Cornell men accused of gang-raping a co-ed at a frat house in 2024. But his feelings of good will were not limited to the seven defendants; his condolences were extended to the university, the local district attorney and university police–all of whom apparently botched the investigation in the beginning.

Why? Why, because of one person, of course. When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed New York Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the case and its apparent mishandling, Trump simply went BALLISTIC.

James, you see, successfully prosecuted PINC on those 34 counts of falsifying business records and that’s unforgivable in PINC’s eyes because everything that doesn’t go his way is either “fake news,” a “witch hunt” or a “hoax.”

“Well, Letitia James is a corrupt person. She’s totally corrupt, and I can’t imagine it,” he said. “I feel badly for whoever she’s looking at because they won’t get a fair shake.” (Feeling “badly” means your fingers are numb. To feel “bad” for someone would be the proper grammar but of course, Trump would have no way of knowing that. For his life after POTUS he does qualify for a play-by-play sports announcer, though.)

So, PINC believes the Cornell frat boys can’t get a fair shake. Oh, really? Let’s review.

In 1980, five men were arrested, tried and convicted for the alleged gang rape and beating of a woman in Central Park.

Trump immediately took out full-page ads in New York newspapers calling for their execution. “These muggers and murderers” should be “forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” said the ad, above Trump’s signature.

Two decades later, DNA evidence proved the men’s innocence and one of them, Yusef Salaam, subsequently ran and won a seat on New York City’s council.

So, did Trump walk back his initial call for reimposition of New York’s death penalty?

Hell no. He DOUBLED DOWN. That’s his style, taught by his (and the late Joe McCarthy’s) lawyer Roy Cohn. He continued after their exoneration to insist they were guilty and that a monetary settlement made by the city was a blunder.

The difference in the two cases? The Central Park Five were all black. Five of the Cornell Seven are white. Plus, the prosecutor, the aforementioned Letitia James, is black.

That makes all the difference in Trump’s poisoned mind. He is a bitter, mentally deranged man convicted of his own sexual assault (E. Jean “she’s not my type” Carroll) who has no business having access to the nuclear codes or, for that matter, a microphone. He has yet to form a single, organized strategy for any of his so-called policies, including health care, defense, the economy, diplomacy or crime prevention. Yet, he insists on envisioning himself as some sort of legal guru.

And with the Epstein files still lingering in the background, he certainly is the last person on earth qualified to speak to justice.