Slain La. Lawyer's Husband Gets 90 Days in Seat Belt Case
Police have made no arrests and named no suspects in the case of a Louisiana criminal defense lawyer found dead in her Baton Rouge law office on Friday as she was about to begin a murder trial today.
However, Chiquita Tate’s husband, Gregory Harris, 37, was jailed over the weekend on a December 2007 warrant for allegedly failing to appear in a domestic abuse case concerning his late wife, according to WAFB.
And today, in another prior unrelated case, District Court Judge Anthony Marabella sentenced Harris to 90 days in jail for contempt of court in a traffic matter that involved a seat belt violation, reports WAFB in a subsequent story.
Attorney Mazie Toussaint Roberson, who worked in the same building as Tate, 34, saw her car in the parking lot when she left at about 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, and again when she returned to pick up her own car at around 11:45 p.m., reports the Advocate.
Early the next morning, Harris called police about his missing wife, and her body was found in her law office about 6 a.m., stabbed multiple times. A short time later Roberson saw Tate’s car being towed away.
“It got to me when I saw that Hummer on the flatbed,” Roberson told the Advocate on Friday morning.
Additional coverage:
ABAJournal.com: “Defense Attorney Found Slain in La. Law Office”
Advocate: “Slain lawyer’s husband in prison without bond”
WAFB: “Over 100,000 outstanding warrants waiting to be served”
Last updated at 6:35 p.m. on Feb. 26 to include link to WAFB article about outstanding warrants.
