Convicted killer Antoinette Frank appears in court. Antoinette Frank returned to an Orleans Parish courtroom this morning, almost 1. Vietnamese restaurant. Prosecutors and relatives of one victim gathered with the expectation that the state court would issue an order for Frank's execution. But Judge Frank Marullo, who presided over her trial and set today's hearing, postponed the matter after meeting with Frank's appellate lawyers. At issue is Frank's recent appeal to the United States Supreme Court, which on Feb.
Frank's attorneys have 2. Marullo said he had called today's hearing prematurely and rescheduled it for April 1.
Seperate juries found that Frank and Rogers La. Caze orchestrated an ambush on the Kim Anh restaurant in eastern New Orleans in 1. NOPD officer Ronald Williams, and siblings Ha and Cuong Vu.
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Williams, 2. 5, had worked with Frank in 1. NOPD rookie officer moonlighting at the Kim Anh for security details.
Scheduled Executions Upcoming Executions: Start : Monday 8 December 2008, 22:00 End : Monday 8 December 2008, 22:00: STAYED Antoinette Frank - Louisiana Death Row. Antoinette Frank is a former New Orleans police officer sentenced to death on October 20, 1995 for the murders of three people during a robbery on March 4, 1995.
Antoinette Frank The Killer with a Badge Crime scene Crime March 4th, 1995 Ronald A. Williams II Cuong Vu Ha Vu Death Sentenced Background Antoinette Frank before the.
Williams' family filled the front row in Marullo's courtroom this morning. Williams' father said he is frustrated with the criminal justice system, but will continue to closely follow Frank's appeals, in the hopes that the state will execute her for the triple murder that rocked New Orleans and became the nadir for the long- trouble police department. Frank, it turned out, had failed portions of the psychological exams needed for admittance to the police academy and should never have been issued a badge and gun, the public learned only after the Kim Anh murders. It's turned lives upside down, with our families and her family. At their separate back- to- back trials, each tried to blame the other for plotting and carrying out the Kim Anh attack. Louisiana hasn't executed a convict since 2.
Frank was one of the last convicted killers condemend to die by an Orleans Parish jury, as juries over the past decade have been reluctant to hand down the death penalty. The last New Orleans murderer sent to death row was Phillip Anthony, for the 1. Louisiana Pizza Kitchen in the French Quarter. He remains on death row at the Angola men's prison. Frank on Wednesday returned to her home at the women's prison in St.
Gabriel, where she is one of two women awaiting a death sentence in Louisiana. An Orleans Parish jury sentenced Frank to death on October 2. At trial, Chau Vu recalled witnessing Frank, who had worked a police detail at the popular Vietnamese restaurant, enter the eatery with an 1. La. Caze for a third time in one night. Vu went to hide money in a microwave, only to return to the dining room to find Frank pushing her back into the kitchen. Chau Vu said she heard gunshots behind Frank.
Vu and her brother hid in a darkened freezer, peering through a window to watch as Frank and La. Caze ran back and forth through the kitchen and hearing more gunshots.
Chau and Quoc Vu finally emerged to find the restaurant's on- duty police officer, Williams, lying shot in the head, and their sister, Ha Vu, 2. Cuong Vu, 1. 8, motionless on the floor. When police cars pulled up, Frank ran up to Chau Vu. Why you ask me that question?'.
Antoinette Frank's brother denies taking part in Kim Anh killings. Having been brought to New Orleans Criminal District Court from Angola prison, Adam Frank climbed onto the witness stand on Tuesday and swore he did not participate in the March 4, 1. NOPD officer Antoinette Frank, and her friend, Rogers La.
Caze, were convicted of committing before being sent to death row. A team of appeals lawyers has been pushing for La. Caze, now 3. 6, to get a new trial during a post- conviction evidentiary hearing that started June 1. District Attorney Harry Connick improperly withheld evidence that suggested it may have been Adam Frank, not La. Caze, who helped Antoinette Frank carry out the heist that resulted in the shooting deaths of NOPD officer Ronald . The Vu siblings were employees there. With Adam Frank's appearance in court on Tuesday, the state sought to shatter any notion that he was his sister's accomplice.
Adam Frank testified that the last time he was in New Orleans before Tuesday's hearing was in early January 1. He said he then moved to Rayville in northeastern Louisiana, and was not in New Orleans when the Kim Anh slayings occurred; he was a fugitive, wanted on an unrelated charge of attempted homicide at the time.? Did you participate in the murders of (the Vus)? Frank, in shackles and a prison- issued orange jumpsuit, replied, . In 1. 99. 8, three years after the murders that shocked the New Orleans community, Adam Frank was arrested in Rayville after authorities say they received a tip from a confidential informant that he had boasted about killing an NOPD cop. Frank escaped the day after that arrest but was recaptured within a month or so. When caught, Frank carried a 9mm Beretta Model 9.
G, the same caliber, make and model as the gun the state believed was used to kill Williams and the Vus. The serial number on the pistol Frank had was rubbed off, but NOPD crime lab personnel recovered a portion of it. What was recovered matched the serial number on the weapon police surmise was used at Kim Anh, but the gun was destroyed before anyone tested it against evidence from the restaurant, according to a statement from a previous court hearing. Frank eventually pleaded guilty to aggravated escape and served two years in prison.
He later pleaded guilty to a 2. Angola. While imprisoned, Frank became acquainted with an inmate named Darren Reppond, who has said that he heard Frank say he fatally shot a police officer at a New Orleans restaurant. But, on Tuesday, Frank denied ever discussing the Kim Anh case with Reppond. Frank, as he did to many questions, answered simply, .
He said he would go to Kim Anh with his sister and noted that he would sometimes speak with Chau Vu, who was among three people at the restaurant who survived the deadly robbery. Chau Vu subsequently testified that La. Caze was Antoinette Frank's accomplice.
After establishing that the muscular, 6- foot, 5- inch Adam Frank was familiar with Chau Vu, Pickett asked presiding Judge Michael Kirby to instruct Frank and La. Caze - seated at the defense table, also in orange prisoner's garb - to stand next to each other. As the two men stood, Frank towered over La. Caze, sending the message that it was implausible that the two men could be confused for one another.
Pickett later asked Frank whether he had been promised or was expecting anything in return for his testimony. Frank said he had not, either by Pickett or his fellow assistant district attorney, Matthew Kirkham, both of whom visited the convict in Angola for the first time earlier in June. During her cross- examination, Blythe Taplin, one of La. Caze's lawyers, asked Frank whether he wanted to protect his sister, who had been brought to Angola for a visit with her brother the previous week. Frank said his mother made him aware of that once he became an adult. Taplin began interrogating Frank about whether he knew what happened to his father, who was reported missing in 1. Skeletal remains were discovered under Antoinette Frank's house in November 1.
Kim Anh murders. There was speculation in the news media back then that the bones belonged to the Franks' father. But the district attorney's office, now headed by Leon Cannizzaro, objected to that line of questioning on Tuesday, arguing that it was irrelevant. The judge agreed.
Taplin also asked Frank about letters he wrote to police and prosecutors in 2. Pickett and Kirkham set up Frank's testimony on Tuesday in part by calling Quoc Vu to testify on Monday. Quoc Vu, another of the three robbery survivors, was the only person who picked La. Caze out of a photographic line- up of possible suspects shortly after the shootings. A source at the district attorney's office who did not wish to be named said Quoc Vu testified consistently with what he had sworn to at the trial: La. Caze, not Adam Frank, was the man he saw helping Antoinette Frank, now 4. Kim Anh restaurant.
Furthermore, before Adam Frank showed up Tuesday, Pickett and Kirkham called Marco Demma, one of the lead NOPD investigators on the Kim Anh case, to testify. Demma said there was never any evidence linking Adam Frank to the killings. For example, at La. Caze's trial, NOPD officer Stanley Morlier was questioned by the defense about a confrontation Williams may have had with Adam and Antoinette Frank at Kim Anh. Morlier denied there was ever any such confrontation. But at Antoinette Frank's trial, which followed La. Caze's, Morlier said he and Williams once had to eject Adam Frank from the restaurant, which prompted Antoinette Frank to confront Morlier and say, .
And I'll take him out.