Louisiana Voice

At least U.S. 3^rd Circuit Court of Appeal Judge (Ret.) Kent Savoie meted out a severe sentence to convicted murderer Demetric Cornell Savoy when he was on a three-judge panel that UPHELD a life imprisonment.

Judge Kent Savoie

That’s in sharp contrast to the sentence he handed down to Misty Roberts, WHO GOT 90 DAYS and a suspended five-year term.

You might remember the story a few weeks back about Roberts, the erstwhile mayor of DeRidder who was caught diddling her son’s 16-year-old friend at a pool party at Roberts’s home. Making matters even worse, the two were busted by two of Roberts’s children and a nephew.

She was CONVICTED in March on two felony counts—carnal knowledge of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a minor—in connection with the 2024 liaison with the underaged boy. She resigned as mayor just days before her arrest for the incident.

Her brother, BRANDON LEE ROBERTS, was sentenced to prison in 2025 after entering a guilty plea to sexually assaulting a girl beginning when she was around 13.

So, how did she get off so lightly? Well, that’s a story in itself.

Savoie was supposedly informed by Roberts’s defense attorney Adam Johnson that hizzoner might be unpopular on social media if he only rendered a suspended sentence. “If you give her a suspended sentence, you’re not going to get as many likes,” Johnson told the judge, casting some doubt as to whom he was representing—Roberts or Savoie.

Savoie, contacted by a Lake Charles TV station, said he had researched how other similar cases were handled in the parish.

Guess he missed that matter involving Brandon Lee Roberts last year.

Just another example of how even-handed justice is in Loozeraner.