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Inside the ExxonMobil refinery offices he commandeered after Hurricane Katrina, where temporary telephone wires dangle from the ceiling alongside sticky yellow flytraps dotted with dead flies and mosquitoes, Henry (Junior) Rodriguez is deliberating on the future of devastated St. Bernard Parish, east of New Orleans. As he downs a bag of chocolates that constitutes dinner, his considerable paunch on display, the parish president rehearses his upcoming appeal to Congress: with no taxpayers and no businesses, St. Bernard has money for just one month's payroll. Rodriguez wants help from Washington--or else. "Do people realize we produce...
...Rodriguez figures that with only 20,000 to 25,000 residents expected back this year, the parish will have to somehow survive without sales and property taxes for two years. Five weeks after Katrina, there is no electricity and no hope of any in the coming weeks. Not one gas station or grocery store is open. The lone hospital has been shuttered--for good. Sheriff Jack Stephens, who has had to lay off half his department, is worried about keeping the parish's remaining 182 deputies on the payroll. All his communications and tactical gear, along with most...
During the original trial, jurors learned that both Colono and Rodriguez had criminal histories, but they were not told many specifics. The new trial will include more of these details...
...Rodriguez has had several convictions for assault and battery. He was also charged in 2001 for unlawful possession of a firearm, according to court documents...
...McDowell said he worried that in the new trial, the defense could shift the focus of the case to the “race and class [of Colono and Rodriguez],” as opposed to the “hard evidence of what actually happened” on April...