Wallace was restrained until a back-up unit arrived on the scene, when he was subsequently arrested and charged with attempted murder and armed robbery. At that time Wallace broke away, ran and picked up a TEC-9 semi-automatic weapon off the grass. The 10-year-old case, they say, remains under investigation. When asked why she would continue the relationship, knowing that Lacaze had been involved in dealing drugs and in a shooting, she responded that she would not disassociate herself from him just because of his past. A psychiatrist retained by the state disagreed that Frank showed symptoms of trauma; he agreed with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder with antisocial tendencies given to Frank by doctors at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women. Yet there were always disputes over whether LaCaze, who was believed to be Frank’s 18-year-old boyfriend, was really her accomplice. Then, she shot Cuong six times.
In her statement, she claimed that she and Lacaze were not dating and had never been intimate. Its ranks had been decimated by several arrests for murder and drug activity. 905, 907 (2017). Main Document Certificate of Word Count Proof of Service: Aug 29 2018: DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018. LCIW was damaged by 2016 flooding, so its prisoners, including Frank, were moved to other prisons.[24].
Frank pistol-whipped 17-year-old Cuong when he hesitated in revealing the location of the money.
[6], Frank's trial began on September 5, 1995, also before Marullo.
It was later revealed that the two had a sexual relationship. Ali said Marullo made an “extremely fraught” decision to preside over the case instead of handing it over to another judge. Frank heard the 911 call on her portable police radio saying that an officer was down at the Kim Anh restaurant.
Lawrence J. Frank then told the man that "Lacaze was the good guy" and that Wallace was the one causing the problems. However, since she is facing the death penalty in the Kim Anh murders, they have made no effort to try her for her father's death. Antoinette Renee Frank is a former New Orleans police officer who, on March 4, 1995, committed a violent armed robbery at a restaurant which resulted in the killing of two members of the family who ran from the establishment, and fellow New Orleans Police Department officer Ronald A. Williams II. Posing as a responding officer, she intended to kill Chau and Quoc in order to ensure there would be no witnesses. As the two were leaving the party, a verbal altercation between Stevens and Lacaze ensued, but Wallace suggested that they leave. According to author Chuck Hustmyre, a former federal agent and author of the book Killer with a Badge, Frank was caught lying on several sections of her employment application, and failed two standard psychiatric evaluations. Frank and Lacaze had been at the restaurant twice earlier in the night to get leftover food to eat. Stevens began running, but another man appeared and grabbed both Lacaze and Wallace. However, the relationship quickly turned into a sexual one. [21][22] An appellate court later overturned the new trial order for Lacaze. Their trials were severed, and Lacaze was tried first on July 17–21, 1995, before Judge Frank Marullo. As Frank moved out of Chau's line of vision, additional gunshots were fired but then observed Frank searching where the Vus usually kept their money. They continued that LaCaze's attorneys had failed "to show that Judge Marullo’s disputed role in the administrative release of a 9mm gun was objectively (and realistically) likely to cause bias for or against either party in this case.