The Sun Herald
BILOXI, Miss. — A grand jury has indicted an Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy in connection with a gang-related stabbing inside Orleans Parish Prison.
Several inmates also were indicted on counts of attempted second-degree murder in the attack, court documents show.
The Sheriff’s Office released a statement saying Dupart’s failure to follow procedures “resulted in an altercation” at the jail in mid-September. Dupart had been reassigned before his indictment and since has been suspended pending the outcome of the criminal case, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Dupart’s bond was set at $750,000, an amount his attorney, Jeffrey Smith, called extreme. Smith asked Criminal District Judge Keva Landrum-Johnson for a hearing, set for Tuesday, to reduce it.
Smith noted that Dupart is accused of being a principal to an aggravated battery, not of committing any violence himself.
“Those bonds are higher than bonds for second-degree murder,” Smith said. “All I know is they’re saying that he allowed this to happen. The allegation is that he didn’t stop a fight.”