Hugo Holland, a Louisiana prosecutor who submitted false paperwork to obtain military weapons and once compared a Black teenager with a severe intellectual disability to a dog in a death penalty case, is now the frontrunner in a judicial race for the First Judicial District Court in Caddo Parish.
Holland's nearly 40-year career as a death penalty prosecutor, documented in a joint investigation by ProPublica and Verite News is marked by judicial findings of withheld evidence, a forced resignation over falsified government documents, and a pattern of conduct that defence attorneys describe as racially biased.
