LA: a good man passes

EBR public defender dies at 62:

Longtime public defender Bert Garraway died Wednesday... from an apparent heart attack.

A 20-year veteran of the East Baton Rouge Parish Office of Public Defenders, Garraway litigated many death-penalty cases and murder cases and... a variety of clients, from the black Muslims in the 1970s North Street shootout to Barbette Williams, who slashed the attorney with a razor blade in the East Baton Rouge Parish Courthouse last year.