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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147596308/amelie-jane-trelles_cooper|title=Amelie Jane "Diddie" Woolfolk Trelles Cooper|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 15, 2020}}</ref>
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On July 31, 1956, the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Haggerty was elected [[judge]] of the New Orleans Criminal District Court to succeed the retiring Fred Oser. Haggerty was reelected in 1960. He presided over the 1967 [[conspiracy]] trial of New Orleans [[business]]man Clay LaVerne Shaw (1913-1974), the former managing director of the International Trade Mart who was accused of plotting the assassination of [[U.S. President]] [[John F. Kennedy]]. Shaw's prosecutor was then then DA James Carothers"Jim" Garrison (1921-1992. After a 40-day sensational trial, Shaw was acquitted after only one hour of jury deliberations.<ref name=findagrave/>
On July 31, 1956, the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Haggerty was elected [[judge]] of the New Orleans Criminal District Court to succeed the retiring Fred Oser. Haggerty was reelected in 1960. He presided over the 1969 [[conspiracy]] trial of New Orleans [[business]]man Clay LaVerne Shaw (1913-1974), the former managing director of the International Trade Mart who was accused of plotting the assassination of [[U.S. President]] [[John F. Kennedy]]. Shaw's prosecutor was then then DA James Carothers"Jim" Garrison (1921-1992. After a 40-day sensational trial, Shaw was acquitted after only one hour of jury deliberations.<ref name=findagrave/>
Haggerty was arrested on December 16, 1969, by the New Orleans Police Department vice squad in a raid on a “stag party” at the Deville Motor Hotel. He beat the obscenity charges on a technicality: the case was thrown out by Judge Matthew Braniff, who declared that key evidence was inadmissible. However, a State Judiciary Commission recommended Haggerty's removal from the bench. In turn, he was stripped of his judgeship on a six-to-one vote of the Louisiana Supreme Court.<ref name=lahist/>
Known as an avid party-goer, Judge Haggerty was arrested on December 16, 1969, by the New Orleans Police Department vice squad which raided a “stag party” at the Deville Motor Hotel. Haggerty beat the [[obscenity]] charges on a technicality: the case was thrown out by Judge Matthew Braniff, who declared that key evidence was inadmissible. However, a State Judiciary Commission recommended Haggerty's removal from the bench, and he was stripped of his judgeship on a six-to-one vote of the Louisiana Supreme Court.<ref name=lahist/>
Haggerty died in New Orleans at the age of seventy-seven and is interred there at Lake Lawn Park Cemetery.<ref>''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' December 4. 1990.</ref>
Haggerty died in New Orleans at the age of seventy-seven and is interred there at Lake Lawn Park Cemetery.<ref>''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' December 4. 1990.</ref>