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==Career==
==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 Ocean|Pacific]] invasions of Saipan and Tinian.<ref name=findagrave/> Thereafter, he was a member of the United States Naval Reserve. 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 Leland "Jimmie" Cooper, Sr. (1910-1956), a French Quarter [[restaurant]] owner charged with the 1952 murder of his wife of one year, the former Amelie Jane “Diddie” Woolfolk Trelles (1921-1952). Cooper was acquitted of the c rime.<ref name=findagrave/>
From 1935 to 1941, he was a deputy clerk for the New Orleans Criminal District Court (Division C). After a year in private practice, he was appointed in 1942 as an 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 Ocean|Pacific]] invasions of Saipan and Tinian.<ref name=findagrave/> Thereafter, he was a member of the United States Naval Reserve.<ref name=lahist/>
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 Leland "Jimmie" Cooper, Sr. (1910-1956), a [[Mississippi]] native and French Quarter [[restaurant]] owner, who was charged with the 1952 murder of his wife of one year, the former Amelie Jane “Diddie” Woolfolk Trelles (1921-1952). Cooper was acquitted of the crime.<ref name=findagrave/>
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<ref>{{cite web|url=https://core.ac.uk/display/48348701|title=Indicted for Murder of Wife|publisher=core.ac.uk|accessdate=April 15, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=
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>
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>
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/>
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/>
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/>
Known as an avid party-goer, Judge Haggerty was arrested on December 16, 1969, by the vice squad of theNew Orleans Police Department 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. He left the court in November 1970.<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>