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New Orleans lawyer who pleaded with cabbie for sex has law license suspended

Jennifer Gaubert, a New Orleans lawyer and radio host whose drunken sexual encounter with a cab driver in 2012 ultimately landed her a pair of criminal convictions, saw her law license suspended for a year and a day Monday.

The Louisiana Supreme Court handed the punishment to Gaubert, 38, nearly seven years after she got into a cab following a night of drinking at Galatoire’s restaurant on Bourbon Street for a ride home to Lakeview.

She proceeded to crawl over the seat and engage cabbie Hervey Farrell in a sexual foray.

Farrell recorded the latter part of the encounter on his cellphone. The video shows Gaubert lifting her skirt while trying to entice the cabbie to engage in sex. Farrell rebuffs Gaubert’s slurring advances before she exits the cab.

Read more: https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/courts/article_ab9579ce-2e4e-11e9-8006-e3a5c0aa2c7b.html


Baton Rouge lawyer who forwarded obscene videos suspended by state high court

A Baton Rouge lawyer who pleaded guilty in federal court in 2017 to forwarding videos of boys engaging in sexual acts with donkeys was suspended Monday for a year and a day by the state Supreme Court.

The high court made Christopher G. Young's suspension retroactive to Sept. 28, when it suspended him on an interim basis. Young must apply to the court to resume practicing law once he has served the suspension.

He is the brother of former Jefferson Parish President John Young.

Christopher Young, a former state liquor lobbyist, is currently serving a two-year suspension that U.S. District Judge John deGravelles imposed last April. The judge also fined him $5,000.

Read more: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_fe98555a-2e40-11e9-a3a9-ff95cff547bb.html


1993 photo of white Baton Rouge police officers in blackface surfaces; chief apologizes, mayor responds

A photo of two white Baton Rouge police officers covered in dark make-up — snapped before a 1993 undercover drug sting in a predominantly black community — has the capital city now part of the nation’s reckoning of racist images.

While the police department has explained that the photo was related to an undercover narcotics operation from 25 years ago — one the police chief at the time recalled as “very successful” — current Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul issued an apology Monday about the photo.

"Blackface photographs are inappropriate and offensive," Paul wrote in a statement. "They were inappropriate then and are inappropriate today. The Baton Rouge Police Department would like to apologize to our citizens and to anyone who may have been offended by the photographs."

The photo, which was posted online this weekend by The Rouge Collection, shows two officers, Crimestoppers coordinator Lt. Don Stone and now-retired police Capt. Frankie Caruso, posing above a caption that says 'Soul Brothers.'

Read more: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_ccaadb1e-2e57-11e9-9782-67064752b238.html


Lt. Don Stone and retired Capt. Frankie Caruso, both white, pose in this photo from 1993 where they are dressed and painted to appear black.