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| Edward A. Haggerty, Jr.
(New Orleans attorney and jurist who presided over the Clay Shaw conspiracy trial in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy) | |
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| Born | October 1, 1913 New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Died | December 2, 1990 (aged 77) New Orleans, Louisiana Resting place: |
| Spouse | Yolande C. Millet Haggerty (married 1947-1990, his death) Parents: |
Edward A. Haggerty, Jr. (October 1, 1913 – December 2, 1990), was an attorney and jurist from his native New Orleans, Louisiana.[1]
Background
Haggerty was one of four children of Edward Haggerty, Sr. (1884-1970), the long-term clerk of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court,.and the former Georgiana O’Neil (1888-1964), he graduated as the valedictorian in 1932 from the Roman Catholic St. Aloysius High School. He attended Harvard University. In 1940, he received the LL.B degree from the Catholic-affiliated Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. That same year he was admitted to the practice of law in Louisiana.[2][3]
In 1947, Haggerty married the former Yolande C. Millet (1917-2016); the couple lost their only child, Edward, III, who died at birth.[4]
Career
From 1935 to 1941, he was a deputy clerk for the New Orleans Criminal District Court. After a year in private practice, he was appointed in 1942 as the Orleans Parish assistant district attorney. During World War II, he served from 1942 to 1946 in the United States Navy, having participated in the Pacific invasions of Saipan and Tinian.[1] Thereafter, he was a member of the United States Naval Reserves. He returned in 1946 to the DA's office and served a total of eleven years under five district attorneys. He was chief prosecutor In the 1954 trial of James L. Cooper, a French Quarter restaurant owner charged with the murder of his wife, Diddie Woolfolk Cooper.[1] [5]
On July 31, 1956, the 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 businessman 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.[1]
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.[2]
Haggerty died in New Orleans at the age of seventy-seven and is interred there at Lake Lawn Park Cemetery.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Judge Edward A. Haggerty, Jr.. Finagrave.com. Retrieved on April 15, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Haggerty, Edward A., Jr.. A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography: Louisiana Historical Association. Retrieved on April 15, 2020.
- ↑ A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography bases its article from Paulette Holahan, ed., Biography of Louisiana Judges (1985).
- ↑ Yolande Millet Haggerty. Findagrave.com. Retrieved on April 15, 2020.
- ↑ Indicted for Murder of Wife. core.ac.uk. Retrieved on April 15, 2020.
- ↑ The New Orleans Times-Picayune, December 4. 1990.