New Orleans defense attorneys sue sheriff, citing lack of privacy for client consultation

Instead of speaking privately face-to-face, defense lawyers and inmates held in Orleans Parish Prison must sit within earshot of a roomful of people and speak over jail telephones or yell through crude and filthy Plexiglas-mesh partitions, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman. The lawsuit by the New Orleans public defenders office alleges that the jail