Nobody likes Leon

You know it's bad when neither side of the case trusts you to handle it properly.

After the NOPD initially booked Stemle on misdemeanor counts of simple battery and trespassing, White complained to law enforcement authorities and media that police had undercharged the offense. Two weeks later, Cannizzaro's office brought the charge of home invasion, a felony punishable by 5 to 20 years upon conviction. The DA's office said the harsher charge was based on screening of the evidence, not White's complaints.

But Stemle's hearing on the recusal motion last summer took a surprising turn when White was called to the witness stand and said she also didn't want Cannizzaro handling the case. The judge testified under oath that she neither liked nor trusted the district attorney, and was "concerned about him handling my case" because Cannizzaro had been "very personal in his disdain for things I have done professionally."

What a goofball comedy that whole story is. The real bad news, though, is it gives Jeff Landry more stuff to do in New Orleans. 

Attorney General Jeff Landry's office instead was tasked with prosecuting Alabama attorney Joshua Stemle, whom New Orleans police said staggered into the courtyard of White's Governor Nicholls Street home and scuffled with the judge's husband, Thomas Wilson III, around 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 20, 2015.

And it's over a thing that happened in the French Quarter. If anything this will just encourage Landry to beef up his "task force."  Maybe there should be a curfew on lawyers in the Quarter after 3 AM. 

Can't see how anyone would consider this a negative

Don't know about you guys, but I'd say more judges should probably hate the D.A.

White, 57, touts her decades in the trenches of criminal and civil legal work, along with nine years as a sharp-tongued jurist who wears her disdain for District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro as a badge of honor.

She argues that the appeals court is in desperate need of her experience, now that Judge James McKay is the only one of the 4th Circuit's 12 judges who has sat on a criminal court bench.

"When I hit court, I am all in. I'm involved in the arguments. I'm involved in knowing the defendants, their families, the lawyers, the issues. I plan to be the same way in the next court," White said.

"When you have three judges on a panel and not one of them is a criminal law expert, I think you're going to get a different perspective on a case."

Bartholomew-Woods, 45, claims equanimity as an asset, painting White's "bombastic" demeanor — and her jousting with the district attorney — as a hazard for an appeals court that settles most legal disputes arising from the district courts in Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes.

The District Attorney is the most frighteningly powerful person in the city.  An appeals court judge should be skeptical of him. Even if that skepticism rises to the level of "bombast."  Better, even.