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Controversial New Orleans district attorney won't run again

by Associated Press
| July 24, 2020 2:03 PM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said Friday that he would not run for a third term in a race that drew two sitting city judges and one of his fiercest critics, a city council member whose own political future has been muddied by a federal indictment on tax charges.

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