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==Postlude==
==Postlude==
Three months after he left office, Mitchell was [[Indictment|indicted]] and convicted of four counts of theft of Shreveport city property. His appeal in 1971 [was rejected in state court despite representation by high-profile attorneys George Whitfield Jack, Jr. (1906-1989) and James Edwin Bolin, Jr. (1914-2002), of Shreveport. State Attorney General Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion, Sr. (1914-2001), who subsequently had his own legal problems with the U.S. government, represented the state in Mitchell's appeal.<ref name=leagle/>
Three months after he left office, Mitchell was [[Indictment|indicted]] and convicted of four counts of theft of Shreveport city property. His appeal in 1971 [was rejected in state court despite representation by high-profile Shreveport attorneys George Whitfield Jack, Jr. (1906-1989), and James Edwin Bolin, Jr.. State Attorney General Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion, Sr. (1914-2001), who subsequently had his own legal problems with the U.S. government, represented the state in Mitchell's appeal.<ref name=leagle/>
The theft convictions, all with the complicity of municipal garage superintentendent Anthony J. Lucero, Jr.,<ref name=leagle/> included:
The theft convictions, all with the complicity of municipal garage superintentendent Anthony J. Lucero, Jr.,<ref name=leagle/> included: