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Christopher Murell and David Utter recently authored an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The brief argue that the Court should hear the case and overturn David Brown's death sentence due to Louisiana prosecutors persistenly hiding favorable evidence to defendants and the Louisiana Supreme Court failing to act.

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The Fair Fight Initiative offers to provide free, pro bono representation to anyone charged with any crime under Louisiana's oppressive, draconian abortion restrictions post-Dobbs. Experienced criminal defense attorneys Christopher Murell, Ronald Haley, and David Utter will provide this representation.

Click here to learn more about the Fair Fight Initiative and support its work.

La. attorneys to offer free legal services to people facing criminal charges under new abortion banWhen the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, June 24, the decision activated Louisiana’s “trigger law”, effectively banning abortions across the state.

Christopher Murell, Ronald Haley, and David Utter - working together as part of the Fair Fight Initiative - announce litigation against Louisiana's Department of Child and Family Services after 2 year-old Mitchell Robinson died from a fentanyl overdose under their watch.

State officials must answer for keeping 2-year-old in home before fatal overdose, attorneys sayLawyers representing the family of the Baton Rouge toddler who died from a fentanyl overdose said Wednesday that his death should serve as a wake-up call for Louisiana’s Department of

The Murell Law Firm files a Motion for New Trial due to District Attorney Jason Williams and the New Orleans Police suppressing clear evidence of innocence at trial.

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Partnering with other civil rights attorneys and organizations, Christopher Murell sues the Governor and the Office of Justice Justice to stop their transfer of juveniles to infamous former-slave plantation, now prison, Angola. These children are to be house in the former death row.

You can support this fight, as well as the treatment of juveniles across the State, by giving to the Fair Fight Initiative.

A new federal lawsuit is trying to stop Louisiana from sending juveniles to AngolaCivil rights attorneys are asking a federal judge to block state officials from moving a group of teens from a deteriorating youth jail to the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary at

In May 2022, Christopher Murell wrote a friend-of-the-court brief for Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to the U.S. Supreme Court urging their review of an unconstitutional capital conviction and sentence.

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Christopher Murell, the Fair Fight Initiative, and the National Police Accountability Project file suit against notorious private prison company for the horrific, unnecessary, and tragic death of Javon Kennerson.

Mom sues over son's death from smoking roach killer in private Louisiana jail: 'Going to haunt me'Something was clearly wrong with Javon Kennerson when he arrived at the Catahoula Corrections Center on Nov. 18, 2020, several days before he smoked roach killer and died.

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