Is Mike Harson running for re-election?

Has anyone heard?

I sure hope he is running for re-election !!

Mike Harson is a crook. He has allowed a guy who cut two people with a knife walk. He is only worried about his conviction percentage and does not fight for people. Just ask his ADA who was procecuting Devin Redlich. Redlich is a known drug dealer, who was shown on film cutting two people in a bar fight. Do your research before you support this guy again.

yeah my mom was killed in a car accident in 2010 and he let the man walk now we have to leave with out our mommy

yeah there was no justice because i lost my my and he didn't even do no time to me

He needs to worry about his kids drug habits and stop being a freaking hypocrite!

Crazy wrote:

He needs to worry about his kids drug habits and stop being a freaking hypocrite!

u right and stop letting people get away doing there time .

Mike Harson is a Crook wrote:

Mike Harson is a crook. He has allowed a guy who cut two people with a knife walk. He is only worried about his conviction percentage and does not fight for people. Just ask his ADA who was procecuting Devin Redlich. Redlich is a known drug dealer, who was shown on film cutting two people in a bar fight. Do your research before you support this guy again.

yep because my is not her and the person who us the blame of her not being is free as a bird

All you keyboard attorneys needs to get away from your keyboard and run for DA, so he can beat your butt. Bunch of losers

Get out of Harsons ass please!

Crazy wrote:

Get out of Harsons ass please!

Do want to tell that to the FBI?
They are the ones crawling up Harson's azz these days.

well one thing i have to say its 2 years today that my mom is gone because of a drunk drive and none of them dammmm da would help us .with tears rolling down my face at the moment . its so dammmm sad they look for there self and there family .

Crazy wrote:

Get out of Harsons ass please!

well guess what my mom is not here today because of a drunk Driver and they let him slide with tears rolling down my face at the moment.

That is horrible! He needs to get out of office if he is not going to do his job!

Same old politics as usual. His secretary will take the fall for his directives and his dirty alliances. I hope Barna Hayes sings like a caged bird. She was a nice lady who helped when the cops were over-zellous.

Harson sure does sound like he's hiding something.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120506...

Harson was asked for a list of people who completed or were terminated from his OWI program and he said his office doesn't maintain a list. Mike Harson told the media "You come do the work.... If you don't want to sit down and do the work yourself, that's your problem."

Attorney Ryan Brown says that the law is very clear in that the DA's office must maintain such a list for public scrutiny.

The day the media published these facts, Harson said he found out he might be able to generate the list. Shortly afterward, the list was in the mail.

"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found serious problems with the way Louisiana law allows prosecutors to handle drunken-driving cases. The report cites a lack of oversight and transparency, as well as potential for unfairness in the way prosecutors select cases for pretrial diversion."

Harson said himself that he doesn't advertise his Justice Diversion Program. Instead, he grants the right to those friends and family who ask for the favor.

Be aware that 58 percent of Lafayette Parish's 148 fatal highway accidents were related to alcohol, according to the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. The national rate is about 39 percent.

For a fee [of $700], certain first-time drunken-driving offenders in Louisiana can enroll in a voluntary pretrial diversion program to avoid prosecution if they successfully complete program requirements.

"The decision to proceed with the prosecution of a case should be based on the merits of the case, not whether the defendant pays to be in the prosecutor's program," [said the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission]

Some information was obtained from Harson's office.

For example, Harson said that from 2009 through 2011, his office sent 668 OWI cases...

City-Parish Attorney Mike Hebert responded with a list from which much of the information had been redacted.

Harson's office provided the number of cases sent to pretrial diversion: 192 in 2009, 221 in 2010 and 255 in 2011, for a total of 668.

Requests for more detailed information was denied.

"It is my understanding that my obligation under the public records act is to provide access to those records deemed public," Harson wrote in response to the open records request. "I am unaware of any provision that requires me to do any statistical analysis, compilation or other computations involving those records."

Louisiana's district attorneys have full discretion in deciding which cases to prosecute, which to dismiss and, which are sent to pretrial diversion. But Louisiana law does not provide criteria that must be met to qualify for pretrial diversion.

Asked for a copy of his guidelines, Harson said he did not have a written copy. When asked through a written request Harson provided written guidelines [a few days later].

"Y'all seem to think I got to answer to you," Harson said in his last interview.

He sure does have to answer to us! He makes me sick! It is ok to break the law if you are one of his buddies. That is BS!