Honorable Madeleine Landrieu from Louisiana (former Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and current Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law)

 

2/04/2021

Honorable Madeleine Landrieu

c/o Office of the Dean

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Loyola University New Orleans College

College of Law Room 351

7214 St. Charles Avenue, Box 901

New Orleans, LA  70118

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and criminal justice reform. In these subjects, I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others. Honorable Landrieu, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and your work on criminal justice reform to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F from 2010-2017, I truly appreciated on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, pushing for strict sentencing for people who commit hate crime to help protect minorities including people who are different, and expressing the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination. Supporting drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, pushing for programs to help victims of crime or victims of domestic violence get help on dealing with trauma, and supporting along with advocating for the need for funds to improve DNA testings including forensic science to help solve evidence efficiently while reduce sending an innocent person to jail is common sense for criminal justice reform.  Also on criminal justice reform, I liked on how you pushed for social workers to help children who are neglect or abused, people who are homeless, people with disabilities, and people who struggle with mental health to get into a treatment program or therapy to reduce strict sentencing.  Another thing that I liked about your work when you served as Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F was how you were a strong supporter of civil liberties like protecting the fourth amendment to help protect people from unreasonable searches and the 6th Amendment to have the person of the accused to hear what charges including evidence is against them and supported ethics reform to ban gifts to  staff of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and other judges from lobbyist including police unions to reduce corruption or bad influence in court decisions. In your current role as Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law I like on how you are a continuous supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities rights and heavily advocate with support criminal justice reform including better protection of civil liberties.  Another thing that I like about your work as Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is how you worked on creating a partnership of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and the New Orleans Police Department to  work on ethics reform to reduce police misconduct including police brutality and to find different ways to handle non violent approaches to situations.

Honorable Landrieu, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Your role as former Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and as Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law gives me motivation to continue to learn history, social justice, and criminal justice reform. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need for the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others. Also your work on criminal justice reform helped me get interested in learning about the need for criminal justice reform from watching different documentaries. 

I strongly believe that you are made a great difference in the judicial system. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to support civil rights, push with advocate for criminal justice reform, and many others. You have truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, and continue to learn different subjects.  I was wondering if you could share with me on what it was like serving as  Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and as current dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to advocate for common sense ideas to help improve society.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick