Antoinette Frank, a New Orleans police officer who is the defendant herein, and Rogers Lacaze were arrested for the crime later that day. Join the mailing list to receive daily email updates.
What did I get out of that visit, the many letters, and knowing Antoinette? CRIME HUNTER: Antoinette Frank worst of the Big Sleazy. That is a type of death, and some would even argue that death is better than essentially life in prison (30 long years). Searches, questions, and re-searches. "I have phone records. On March 4, 1995, around 11 p.m., Frank and her boy toy rolled into the Kim And Vietnamese restaurant. Our visit lasted a few hours, and we covered much about her life, as well as my life. In 1995, an Orleans Parish jury unanimously decided that she deserved the death penalty for the rampage at the Kim Anh restaurant that left dead police officer Ronald Williams, 25, and siblings Ha and Cuong Vu - who had worked with their family at the restaurant, then located in eastern New Orleans. But a local capital appeals agency told the court it had not been given notice of any LaCaze hearing today. Frank's former attorneys, Denise LeBoeuf and Nick Trenticosta did not file for a re-hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, which in February denied their request to revisit Frank's death sentence, the judge noted. The office has pledged to keep LaCaze in prison, citing among other factors the testimony of a woman who came forward in 2013 to say LaCaze had confessed to her. Detectives said she even stole a videotape of her confession that was left unattended at the police station. Need Help? Update: One of my reviewers on this article has stated in his review that he or she was disapointed that I don't speak more about Antoinette as to what we discussed. That co-defendant, Robert Coleman, remains on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. LaCaze, 31, said he is sorry that the victims' families have lost their loved ones, but maintains that he was not at the restaurant that night.
She and another man (also convicted and sentenced to death) by the name of Roger La Caze was in on the robbery ( Google her name and/or go to wikipedia to view her picture). Smith, 33, awaits the lethal injeciton needle for a triple murder in eastern New Orleans on Feb. 5, 1995.
Kirby said LaCaze should get a new trial. SIGNED BOOKS
But then on the other hand, she steadfastly refuse to give up her appeals! When it became clear what went down, the veteran detective said, “I wanted to vomit.”. Attorney Gary Clements, of the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana, appealed for more time, arguing the Marullo was ignoring the state law that allows a convicted murderer time to file a post-conviction appeal before receiving an execution date.
Officials there said in April that they haven't updated the "media witness" list for executions since the last time the prison held a lethal injection six years ago. The other catch, use up your appeals (average time 12-15 years of appeals) and extend your time living, if you call sitting in a cell living.
They claimed that LaCaze’s confession to being at the restaurant was coerced and that the judge overseeing the trial should have recused himself. Marullo said today that he followed the letter of the law in the Frank case, despite what Clements argued before him at court. Frank, 37, remains on death row at the women's prison at St. Gabriel, awaiting the state's lethal injection needle for the shooting deaths of New Orleans police officer Ronald Williams, 25, and siblings Cuong Vu, 21, and Ha Vu, 17, at the Kim Anh restaurant where all of them, including Frank, had worked. Elayn Hunt Correctional Center is immediately west of LCIW. Ronald Williams' father attended Monday's hearing, following the LaCaze case as closely as he has that of Antoinette Frank's. After Frank and Lacaze left the premises, Quoc emerged from the cooler and ran out the back door of the restaurant to a nearby friend’s home to call 911 to report the murders while Chau tried frantically to call 911 on her cell phone, but the cooler prevented her from getting a usable signal.The robbers fled the restaurant, and Frank dropped off Lacaze at a nearby apartment complex, both knowing that there were witnesses left behind. As the employees cleaned the closed restaurant, Chau Vu went into the kitchen to count money and entered the dining room of the restaurant to pay Ronald A. Williams II, a New Orleans Police Department officer and a colleague of Frank, who had been working as the security guard that night. The boy toy terror then parked two more bullets into Williams’ paralyzed body. LaCaze appeared in court Monday, shackled and wearing an orange jail-issued jumpsuit, without an attorney. |
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Around midnight, Chau Vu, 24, was working the restaurant with her sister and two brothers. Ogletree is a noted Harvard Law School professor who taught President Obama when he was a law student. Sensing something was wrong, she slid into the back, hid the cash in a microwave and returned to the front of the joint. To legendary NOPD homicide detective Eddie Rantz, the whole scene stunk. Later, after her arrest, an investigation revealed the body of a man buried underneath her house, thought to be her father, who she had earlier reported as missing, hence... some have labeled her a serial killer!