Such serial-killings cases, with alleged murders across multiple court jurisdictions, commonly face a number of potential pitfalls, James Alan Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston and frequent consultant on mass-murder cases and issues, said in a telephone interview.
Other parish district attorneys are still considering whether to charge him with murders he allegedly confessed to in their jurisdictions.
Though he currently has only been charged in Terrebonne, whether Dominique will first stand trial here has yet to be determined. They said his confession indicates he killed those two men in New Orleans, not in Jefferson Parish, effectively moving those cases to Orleans Parish. In late December, Jefferson Parish prosecutors dropped their charges against Dominique. Soon afterward, a grand jury ruled that there was enough evidence to prosecute Dominique in Terrebonne Parish for the murder of nine men he allegedly killed inside the parish limits. After his arrest, Dominique allegedly told investigators that he killed 23 men over the past 10 years and left their bodies on back streets in suburban New Orleans and in remote cane fields and shallow drainage canals in Terrebonne, Lafourche, and surrounding parishes. 1 at an east-Houma homeless shelter on warrants for the murders of two men whose bodies were found in Jefferson Parish in the late 1990s. Attorneys for both sides will meet April 9 for a status conference with the judge.ĭominique was arrested Dec. No date was set for Dominique’s next court hearing.
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