Remember Robert “Robbo” Davidson, the DeSoto Parish sheriff’s chief investigator whose private company ran more than 41,500 background checks through the sheriff’s office in an 11-month period?
Davidson (now retired) was a principal in LAGNIAPPE and CASTILLO RESEARCH and INVESTIGATIONS, which charged customers $12 for each background report and paid the sheriff’s office $3 per report for a profit of more than $372,000 for him and his partner, Allan Neal Castillo.
Now, LouisianaVoice has obtained an old Facebook photograph of Davidson, along with 42nd Judicial District Court Judge Charles Adams having a little fun in the Angola State Penitentiary death chamber.
The photo shows Davidson lying on the gurney where lethal injections are administered to death row inmates. Enjoying the moment are, standing, left to right, Judge Adams, Jean Calvert, Adams’s secretary, and Davidson’s wife Linda Davidson, a DeSoto Parish constable.
The most inappropriate aspect of this photo, besides the obvious poor taste of posing for it in the first place, is that there are presently four death row inmates from DeSoto Parish at Angola and should either of the cases be remanded to 42nd JDC by an appellate court, it would put Adams, as the presiding judge, in something of an awkward position.
One of those death row inmates, by the way, is JAMES BALDWIN, father of current DeSoto Parish Sheriff Jayson Richardson.
Richardson recently refused to provide personnel files of the sheriff’s office to Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera’s office and Richardson fought back with a PETITION for declaratory and injunctive relief. Purpera countered by seeking to move the matter to the 19th Judicial District in Baton Rouge.
The issue of proper jurisdiction was heard by Judge Adams, who ruled that the case would be heard in his court which, in light of his coziness with the sheriff’s office, as depicted in this photo, only serves to raise more questions than answers about the propriety of hearing Richardson’s petition in Adams’s court.
Louisiana Voice 
This solves the mystery of why Jayson Richardson changed his name…
This is sick. What’s wrong with people?
Why is this in bad taste? What is wrong with you people? Don’t you have any sense of humor? The only reason people go to the death table is because they deserve it and it doesn’t matter who’s father, brother, sister, etc is going to lay on that table – they deserve to be there because they committed the ultimate bad act and took someone else’s life!!! You however are an oboma loving idiot who bleeds liberal so you don’t even like the death penalty. Go stick your head in the sand where it obviously resides 99.999% of the time.
For openers, you might wish to read the entire post to understand why this was inappropriate. (But then, you probably still wouldn’t understand). Which movie was it the character said ‘you just can’t reach some people’?
And just how is it you managed to bridge the gap between ‘Don’t you have any sense of humor?’ and ‘The only reason people go to the death table is because they deserve it’? That’s a pretty good stretch. Sorry, but I just don’t see the connection.
And speaking of the former president, please at least learn to spell his name correctly and it’s also “whose” father, not ‘who’s father’. You might spend less time spewing your hatred and devote more tome to learning spelling and grammar.
What is Enilorac Modo talking about?
Her name is Caroline Odom, but for some reason (I guess she thinks she’s being clever) she spells it backwards.
At the same time, she can’t seem to spell Obama and yes, I am opposed to the death penalty because there are many, many documented cases of the wrong person being sentenced to death row and many of those ultimately being executed. And there are dozens upon dozens of cases (I know of at least 16 in Louisiana alone) where death row inmates were exonerated when it was revealed that dishonest DAs like Harry Connick withheld exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated them.
So, Caroline Odom, you can take your made-up statistics (“The only reason people go to the death table is because they deserve it”–God! that’s one of the stupidest generalities I’ve ever heard) and pull your head OUT of the sand. Here’s a generality for you: You throw out phony statistics to suit your agenda but you probably parrot Trump’s “fake news” accusations at anyone with whom you disagree. Am I pretty close?
I may be a liberal, but I can spell Obama and I don’t paint everyone with the same broad brush.
Here’s the deal, Caroline Odom: Come up with hard statistics to back up your feeble theories or shut the hell up because you’re only exposing your pathetic ignorance and it’s not pretty.
Thanks – the backward spelling of the name explained the entire post.
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