The district attorney for New Orleans, Leon Cannizzaro, has come under fire for not only issuing "fake subpoenas" that threaten jail time, he's actually arrested the victims and kept them incarcerated until trial in some cases.
It's important to note that the state of Louisiana uses a completely different system of law than the rest of the United States, based off the French civil code.
It gives judges and prosecutors a lot of leeway in how they handle cases.
The district attorney for New Orleans, Leon Cannizzaro, has come under fire for not only issuing "fake subpoenas" that threaten jail time, he's actually arrested the victims and kept them incarcerated until trial in some cases.
He's still DA there, somehow.