successful appeals like his very rare in louisiana this project been challenging you gotta hand it to daniel stanford is a criminal lawyer in lafayette he won the appeal for tell you to show stanford dislikes a legal system that links politics and justice to most powerful positions in any parish is the sheriff in the district attorney. they have all the power and so when you have all these people getting together statewide saying we want tougher laws we want the procedures changed in a way that favors us. it happens because that's popular in louisiana not only da's are elected but also state judges are elected out think that's the best way to have a prosecutor our judges to be elected by the people because then you're responsive to the people and guess what people are losing don't solve prosecutors and they don't want to solve judges they don't kick you out if you're elected official and you've got elected under the premise of i'm going to be tough on crime. you commit crimes you're going to send you away as a matter of fact you will do we're going to jack up the penalties we need to put these guys a